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Operation Of No-Fault Auto Laws: A Survey Of The Surveys, Jeffrey O'Connell

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. No-Fault Systems

III. Statistical Studies

IV. Slowing of Legislative Momentum

V. Conclusion

Selective Attention Between Words, Shapes And Colors In Speeded Classification And Vocalization Tasks, John H. Flowers, Charles M. Stoup

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The presence of irrelevant words (incongruent color and shape names) substantially slowed the sorting of shapes and colors. This interference was maintained over four sessions of practice for color sorting, but essentially vanished for shape classification and color classification using stimuli in which the word and color were physically separated. Interference with oral naming was maintained over 4 days of practice for all types of stimuli, demonstrating that spatial selectivity of attention is highly dependent upon the response requirements of the task.

A Linguistic View Of Habermas' Theory Of Communicative Competence, Elisabeth Leinfellner

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Habermas'view of language has been widely discussed in Europe and, to some extent, by rhetoricians and philosophers in the United States. Here we will present the linguistic point of view.

Habermas' theory is heavily influenced by concepts taken from hermeneutics and Habermas' own sociological views. For instance, Habermas uses his concept of "systematic distortion" (i.e. ideological distortion in a specific sense) and introduces it into the theory of communicative competence.

Habermas calls his view of language a "theory of communicative competence"; but even though he derives "competence" from Chomsky's "linguistic competence," the former's concept of competence is not to be …

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences- Table Of Contents And Introduction

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

TRANSACTIONS of the NEBRASKA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

CONTENTS

Nebraska Academy of Science, Officers, Policy Committee, Editorial Board ....................... ii

Instructions to Contributors....................... vi

ANTHROPOLOGY Calcium carbonate inclusions in pottery: Some cautions for the archaeologist RAYMOND LEICHT ....................... 1

The group foster home counselor: An anthropological analysis PATRICK F. MC CARTY ....................... 5

Man-made artifacts from the Red Willow Gravel Pits THOMAS P. MYERS ....................... 9

BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Plant galls of the vicinity of Seward, Nebraska CARL T. BRANDHORST ....................... 13

Marvinmeyerla lucida (Moore, 1954) a commensal of Helisoma trivolvis (Say) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Nebraska DANIEL R. BROOKS and …

On The Status Of The Concepts Of Masculinity And Femininity, Sarah Hoagland

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Observer bias is considerable in studies investigating differences between the characters of the sexes, partly because "masculinity" and "femininity" are not empirical concepts. Instead, they function to sort out phenomena by determining a range of significance, thus encouraging discriminatory evaluation of human action.

To support this I argue:

1. Particular character traits are assessed (valued and understood) differently depending on whether they apply to men or women.

2. Counterexamples to the generalization, "All men are masculine," are not accepted as real counterexamples, but are rather regarded as abnormal (subnormal, not rare).

Toward A Methodology For Auditing, Jack L. Krogstad

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The nature and practice of auditing is described within the context of the social, economic, and political dynamics of the last 100 years. Auditing developed upon a predominantly pragmatic foundation. Within the last decade, auditing scholars such as Mautz, Sharaf, Silvoso, Newmann, and Carmichael have attempted to undergird auditing with theoretical substance. This attempt has been hampered by the absence of an appropriate methodology. Reflection suggests that for a discipline to reach maturity, it must embrace a methodology germane to its particular needs and activities. Efforts to find such a methodology have focused exclusively on the methods of the physical …

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences- Whole Issue

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Affiliated Societies

Nebraska Academy Of Sciences, Inc.

Policy Committee 1976 - 1977

Table Of Contents

Editorial Board

Editor's Corner

Reprints

Kant As Internalist: The Synthetic A Priori Proposition Of Kant's Ethical Theory, Nelson T. Potter

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Kant claims that his categorical imperative is a synthetic, a priori proposition, but he does not make clear what makes this proposition synthetic or a priori. In this essay it is argued that in Kant's view the proposition is synthetic a priori because it states a quasi-psychological fact: that rational beings are capable of acting from purely moral motives. This means that Kant is an "internalist" in W.D. Falk's sense.

The Future Of Free And Democratic Institutions: A Critique Of Robert L. Heilbroner's An Inquiry Into The Human Prospect, Robert E. Dewey

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

In his recent book, An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, Robert L. Heilbroner argues that the current use of scientific technology by the industrialized nations is so rapidly exhausting the world's resources that free and democratic institutions must give way to authoritarian regimes with the power to control economic production, population size, and the expression of ideas, or mankind will perish. While acknowledging the seriousness of the problems noted by Heilbroner, I contend that free and democratic institutions can, and probably will, provide solutions. To support this contention, I note that Heilbroner's pessimism about our institutions is based upon …

Pictorial Interference With Geometric Shapes And Achromatic Shades, Richard P. Compton, John H. Flowers

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

In two experiments, subjects were required to match printed names with subsequently displayed achromatic shades or geometric shapes. The presence of incongruent shades or shapes at the time of word display substantially slowed the RT for performing the match.

The Sheppard Mandate Today: A Trial Judge's Perspective, Eric E. Younger

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Dealing with Publicity Cases … A. A Rarity of Cases … B. Lack of Judicial Power … C. The Confusing Sheppard Mandate

III. Use of Gag Orders … A. Impact of Sheppard … B. ABA Due Process Proposal … C. The Nebraska Press Case

IV. Conclusion and Suggestions

A Study To Test The Teacher Perceivers Interview As An Instrument That Would Select Vocational Agriculture Instructors That Develop Positive Rapport With Their Students, James E. Simmons

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this study was to test the Teacher Perceiver Interview as an instrument that would select vocational agriculture instructors that develop positive rapport with their students. A review of literature that led to this study stemmed from three areas. These were the use of the interview in hiring prospective teachers, the teacher-pupil rapport concept, and combining these two processes into an interview instrument intended to measure the teacher-pupil rapport an applicant could be expected to develop. A random sample of forty-five vocational agriculture instructors was selected out of a total of 138 teachers in the state of Nebraska. …

Agricultural Experiment Station News December 1976

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS
OVERTIME PAY
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS – NOVEMBER 1976

Origins Of Tolerance: Findings From A Replication Of Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, And Civil Liberties, J. Allen Williams Jr., Clyde Z. Nunn, Louis St. Peter

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This report presents findings from a nationwide replication of Stouffer's classic study of attitudes toward civil liberties. Central to Stouffer's interpretation of the origins of tolerance is his idea that exposure to social and cultural diversity encourages an appreciation of the importance of civil liberties for democracy. Trends in the 1950s suggested that Americans would increasingly be exposed to diversity with the result that the population would become more tolerant in the future. These propositions were examined using education, city size, region, exposure to mass media news, gender, and occupation as indices of exposure to diversity. With the exceptions of …

On Political Tolerance: Comments On "Origins Of Tolerance", Harry J. Crockett

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The continued scalability of a set of attitude items used in national sample surveys separated by 19 years is a remarkable and useful result. In a discipline lacking valid measures of socially important attitudes, such an outcome merits close study and wide dissemination. But exhibiting the stability of Stouffer's tolerance scale is not the prime end of the Williams et al. paper; they pursue an accounting of the "origins of tolerance." Nor is it the prime interest of the larger research from which their paper arises. Our concern in the larger study is with the political tolerance of the American …

Tests Of Bird Damage Control Measures In Sudan, 1975, Lee R. Martin

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

The Red-billed Quelea (Quelga quelaa), because of its widespread destruction of grain crops throughout its range in Africa, is one of the most studied and written about granivorous bird species. Less publicized are more local bird pests in Africa which may be equally Important. The Village Weaver, (Ploceus cucullatus), for example, is a pest in many countries, while some other Ploecids with limited destructive habits create local problems. Significant crop losses also occur where there are large populations of Golden Sparrows (Passer luteus), House Sparrows (Passer domesticus), Red Bishops (Euplectes oryx), Doves (Streptopelia spp.), Glossy Starlings (Lamprotornis chalybaeus), Parakeets (Psittacula …

Communication Skills Needed By Persons In Business Organizations, Vincent Disalvo, David C. Larsen, William J. Seiler

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Whether we like it or not, this is the age of subject matter relevancy and educational accountability. In order for instruction to be interesting, meaningful, and practical for students, it must be essentially a microcosm of that segment of the “real world” students will be entering upon graduation. The objective of competency- or performance-based models of education suggests that educators should be held accountable for what they teach. However, before teachers can be held accountable they need to know what skills and abilities their students will require in order to be successful in their career objectives.

In addition to the …

Agricultural Experiment Station News October 1976

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS - September 1976
BULLETINS PRINTED

An Evaluation Of Transactional Analysis As A Strategy Of Organization Development, Gilbert Frank Nykodym Ii

Department of Communication Studies: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Introduction

Organizational Development (OD) and Transactional Analysis embrace a humanistic philosophy of organizational life. Connor noted: "Commitment to traditional humanistic concerns of individual growth, development, dignity, worth, and meaning is expressed in all OD literature (1975, p. 349)." Transactional Analysis (TA) takes an identical position.

We are living in the Age of Aquarius. Knowledge is no longer coveted by the chosen few who call themselves experts. Anyone who can read can gain expertise. It is fitting and appropriate at this time in human history that a model for behavior and human interaction (TA) has come along that can be used …

Life Satisfaction And Attitudes Toward The Future: A Comparison By Age, Sex, And Area Of Residence, Jimmie Cooley

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

This study was concerned with evaluations people make regarding their present satisfaction and happiness, and with their attitudes toward the future. Measurements were not limited to objective circumstances in which people live. The individual’s subjective sense of well-being, or the quality of life, was the desired information, and this quality is not found by measuring income, size of residence, or a unit of time—though well-being may be related to such variables. This study sought to determine aspects of present satisfaction as well as those aspects of satisfaction or of worry which people think will apply to them in their later …

Commercial Pest Management Of Birds In Grapes, Jim Clore

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 7th (1976)

Vineyard losses to birds are primarily due to two species; these are the starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus). The majority of losses in the Central California Coastal region are caused by the starling, due to the large numbers of migratory birds arriving prior to harvest. Starlings are best controlled by a combination of pyrotechnic and acoustic devices. Linnets are most effectively controlled by trapping and poisoning. No matter what type of control is used, it is necessary to have sound knowledge of the birds' behavior and reliable personnel carrying out the program. …

Control Of The European Mole, Talpa Eruopaea, M. Lund

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 7th (1976)

Common methods for mole control are baiting with earthworms impregnated with thallium sulphate or strychnine, gassing with pellets developing phosphine, and trapping. Seasonal cycles in burrowing activity make it difficult to evaluate results of expensive control campaigns and may give a false impression of efficiency.

Olfactory Responses Of Deer Mice To Douglas-Fir Seed Volatiles, C. Raymond Record, Rex E. Marsh, Walter E. Howard, Donald J. Stern

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 7th (1976)

An attempt was made to identify the olfactory cues produced by Douglas-fir seeds which attract deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) to the seeds. The olfactometers used are described, and the merits of different statistical analyses of the data are discussed. The odors produced by whole Douglas-fir seed and by the endosperm were preferred among the fractions tested to date. Deer mice were repelled by Douglas-fir turpentine, cedar oil, and, to a lesser degree, one extract.

Verbal Interference With Visual Classification: Optimal Processing And Experimental Design, John H. Flowers, Beccy Blair

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The speed of classification of six alternative ink colors into two categories of three colors each was measured in tasks for which the colors were displayed as either XXXX patterns or incongruent words (Stroop stimuli). Substantial interference from the words occurred when the classification required grouping nonadjacent hues (red, yellow, and blue vs. orange, green, and purple) regardless of whether subjects received exclusive practice with this classification. Interference also occurred when the classification required grouping adjacent hues (red, orange, and yellow vs. green, blue, and purple), but only if this classification was intermixed within blocks of trials with the nonadjacent …

Conference Materials, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1976

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Organizational Model, by Walter Sikes

Action Research, by Walter Sikes

Intervention Alternatives, by Walter Sikes

Conditions for Application of Collaborative Strategy, by Walter Sikes

Survey Feedback, by Vincent Skotko

Introduction to Organizational Development in Schools, by Daniel Langmeyer, Ph.D.

Beckhard's Goal Confrontation

Reducing Resistance, by Walter Sikes

Argyris: Intervention Theory and Method, summarized by Daniel Langmeyer, Ph.D.

Excerpt, "Implications of these Findings"

Issues in Organization Development

Organization Development: A Summary

The Adult As A Consumer Of Learning, Malcolm Knowles

Consumer Behavior in the Health Marketplace: Symposium Proceedings

What I would like to do is explore with you what I think we know (and I will try to separate what we know from what we speculate about, as far as I can) about the behavior in the marketplace of adults as learners. Those of you who are in health education will find relevance in terms of patient teaching, of public health education, and even in pre-service and in-service education of health educators. Those of you who are not in health education can make applications to your respective fields of work.

Let me start by developing a little historical …

Whose Behavior In What Health Marketplace?, Leon S. Robertson

Consumer Behavior in the Health Marketplace: Symposium Proceedings

A number of behavioral scientists and health educators have been engaged for some time in attempts to explain and/or influence human behavior regarding health and illness. Behavior directed toward preserving health is called health behavior.1 Behavior subsequent to the perception of symptoms and directed toward diagnosis and treatment is called illness behavior.

It has been suggested that techniques used to market products and services can be used to help individuals fulfill their needs in both prevention and amelioration of illness as well as in the alleviation of other social problems. In this paper I shall review some principles that have …

Some Determinants Of Post-Purchase Satisfaction Among Medical Care Consumers, Lawrence Wortzel

Consumer Behavior in the Health Marketplace: Symposium Proceedings

Consumer behavior in the health marketplace is an interesting subject. One of the interesting things about studying medical care is that different people experience different results after having the same health care. For example, in the Massachusetts presidential primary that took place some time ago, one of the voting machines somehow got hooked up to an X-ray device, and, as a result, three voters were exposed to doses of radiation. One of the exposed was a conservative, one was a liberal, and one was an independent. They were immediately rushed to one of the major Boston medical centers where a …

Consumer Behavior: An Epidemiological Perspective, Thomas J. Prendergast

Consumer Behavior in the Health Marketplace: Symposium Proceedings

My interest is epidemiology and preventive medicine. Epidemiology is the study of disease distributions in man. Preventive medicine is the attempt to avoid acquiring the risk factors of diseases by individuals, which can be called "primary prevention." Also it is the attempt to avoid development of diseases among those who have risk factors, and that is known as secondary prevention. Quite clearly there is much concern about epidemiology as the basis for preventive medicine and about preventive medicine as a potentially cheaper and easier way to provide quality medicine. Health education is a clear dimension of preventive medicine.

We have …

Sociological Factors In High Blood Pressure, Sidney M. Stahl

Consumer Behavior in the Health Marketplace: Symposium Proceedings

High blood pressure is a silent killer and is therefore one of the most significant of the medically related problems that afflicts modern man. Approximately 25 million people living in the United States have the disease. In reality, it is not a "disease" in the classic meaning of that term; instead its sequelae, or subsequent effects, are diseases that are all too familiar and deadly: stroke, kidney disease and myocardial infarction (heart attack), to name just a few. In fact, there are more deaths in the United States each year attributable to the sequelae of high blood pressure than to …