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Exercising Authority: A Critical History Of Exercise Messages In Popular Magazines, 1925-1968, Dahn Edward Shaulis Jan 1997

Exercising Authority: A Critical History Of Exercise Messages In Popular Magazines, 1925-1968, Dahn Edward Shaulis

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to analyze exercise messages in American popular magazines. A critical perspective and historical sociological methods were used to examine more than 500 magazine articles published from 1925 to 1968. A common factor in many articles was the use of ideology mixes. Magazines used biomedicalization, materialism, nationalism, and patriarchy in several combinations to authorize restrictive exercise norms. Exercise norms were stratified by age, class, gender, and race, but changing ideology mixes and exercise norms often reflected changes in society. Biomedicalization authorized doctors as gatekeepers. It prescribed moderate activity for affluent men, but discouraged vigorous exercise …

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A Matter Of Faith: A Study Of The Muddy Mission, Monique Elaine Kimball Jan 1997

A Matter Of Faith: A Study Of The Muddy Mission, Monique Elaine Kimball

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Leonard J. Arrington wrote about the Mormon development of the Great Basin from 1847 to 1900 in Great Basin Kingdom (1966). He summarized Mormon economic ideals in seven principles which served as the basis of his argument about their success in the Great Basin; The Muddy Mission, established on the Muddy River (Nevada) in 1865, served three purposes, foremost was cotton production. Church leaders believed that the successes experienced in Utah would be repeated in the southern regions. Unfortunately, by 1871 politics and economics ended any successes the Muddy Mission had; Arrington's principles represent a Mormon's ethnographic statement about the …

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A Mighty Maya Nation: How Caracol Built An Empire By Cultivating Its Middle Class, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase Sep 1996

A Mighty Maya Nation: How Caracol Built An Empire By Cultivating Its Middle Class, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

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Modern Western Discourse On The Subject, Jongryul Choi Jan 1996

Modern Western Discourse On The Subject, Jongryul Choi

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the modern Western discourse on the subject. This thesis will trace the roots of the modern Western discourse on the subject from the Enlightenment era, which saw the subject as being autonomous, rational, stable, and self-constitutive. It will contend that the Hegelian subject was the culmination of the notion of the modern Western subject. Lacanian psychoanalysis will be used to show how this fictitious feature is constituted by the Oedipus story and how it works. This thesis will show that the modern Western politics was based on this fictitious subject, exemplified by …

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Unlv Magazine, Barbara Cloud, Laurie Fruth Jan 1996

Unlv Magazine, Barbara Cloud, Laurie Fruth

UNLV Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Describing The Elephant: Multiple Perspectives In New York City's Watershed Protection Conflict, Krystyna Anne Stave Jan 1996

Describing The Elephant: Multiple Perspectives In New York City's Watershed Protection Conflict, Krystyna Anne Stave

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Research

New York City's efforts to avoid filtration mandated by the 1986 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments and the 1989 Surface Water Treatment Rule have generated considerable controversy. Since the conflict began in 1990, a spectrum of stakeholder groups has emerged, representing land owners, sport fishermen, businesses, environmental groups, developers, and watershed communities. What was originally defined by New York City water supply managers as a scientific problem--identifying sources of water quality degradation and preventing contaminants from entering the water supply system--now has broadened to include a diverse set of social and economic issues as well.

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The Long Journey: From Institutionalization To Adult Day Care, Kristin L Kampschroeder Jan 1996

The Long Journey: From Institutionalization To Adult Day Care, Kristin L Kampschroeder

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis will present a field study of an adult day care center in an attempt to establish a new methodology which will address the different types of clients in the recent phenomenon of adult day care settings. Previous research and field study has only focused on adults within institutional settings or on the institutions themselves. Adult day care, on the other hand, has arisen as an alternate form of care which allows for greater flexibility and concern for clients' needs. This thesis, then, in differentiating adult day care from total institutions and in delineating the types of clients, will …

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Mandatory Uniforms: Employees Are What They Wear, Kathleen S Nelson Jan 1996

Mandatory Uniforms: Employees Are What They Wear, Kathleen S Nelson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Uniform design is an overall scheme which includes four design factors: appearance, function, character and comfort. To what extent do these elements used in the design of mandatory uniforms predict an employee's attitude toward his/her job? Will an employee wearing a lime green polyester uniform that fits poorly and is overly hot feel differently about his job than one wearing a finely tailored, naturally fibered uniform?;An examination of these elements will be conducted as well as an investigation of degree of guest interaction to determine the effect of mandatory uniforms on the attitude toward the job of the hospitality employees …

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A Bridge Across The Gender Gap: The Role Of Men In Feminist Discourse, Gabrielle Kenton Renshaw Jan 1996

A Bridge Across The Gender Gap: The Role Of Men In Feminist Discourse, Gabrielle Kenton Renshaw

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The ongoing discourse about meanings and impacts of feminism is a dynamic process of ideas influencing ideas. The process directs the course of the development of feminist theory. Most of the discourse is directed at women by women, but many men have also contributed to the dialectic. This study is an examination of those contributions by men as well as an attempt to understand the impact they have on the women's movement.

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Meanings And Measures Taken In Concert Observation Of Bruce Springsteen, September 28, 1992, Los Angeles, Thomas J Rodak Jan 1996

Meanings And Measures Taken In Concert Observation Of Bruce Springsteen, September 28, 1992, Los Angeles, Thomas J Rodak

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Since the mid-1970s, Bruce Springsteen's concerts and his rapport with audience members have attracted the attention of leading rock music critics. Witnessing the communication between Springsteen and audience members was the purpose of this study. On-site observation was used to explore the techniques that Springsteen uses to communicate with the audience during the concert; A model, previously employed by Deanna and Timothy Sellnow to determine the effects of musical score upon the lyrics of songs recorded in the studio, was utilized with the on-site observation. The model had not been applied to a concert performance before this study; The findings …

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Friends, Neighbors, Foes And Invaders: Conflicting Images And Experiences Of Japanese Americans In Wartime Nevada, Andrew Benjamin Russell Jan 1996

Friends, Neighbors, Foes And Invaders: Conflicting Images And Experiences Of Japanese Americans In Wartime Nevada, Andrew Benjamin Russell

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Japanese Americans of the interior West also faced perils during World War II, up to and including the possibility of internment and mass relocation. Although Nevada contained relatively few Japanese Americans at the outset of the war, the "Japanese question" received serious attention across the state. Early on, Nevadans grappled with the question of what to do about Japanese residents, and these debates spawned vastly different outcomes. In March 1942 the question changed, as many Nevadans began to fear and oppose an expected influx of "California Japs" (Japanese Americans the government was excluding from neighboring states). In this "free" interior …

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Ocrspell: An Interactive Spelling Correction System For Ocr Errors In Text, Eric Stofsky Jan 1996

Ocrspell: An Interactive Spelling Correction System For Ocr Errors In Text, Eric Stofsky

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

In this thesis we describe a spelling correction system designed specifically for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) generated text that selects candidate words through the use of information gathered from multiple knowledge sources. This system for text correction is based on static and dynamic device mappings, approximate string matching, and n-gram analysis. Our statistically based, Bayesian system incorporates a learning feature that collects confusion information at the collection and document levels. An evaluation of the new system is presented as well.

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Exploring The Association Between Body Weight And Health Care Avoidance, Christine M Aramburu-Drury Jan 1996

Exploring The Association Between Body Weight And Health Care Avoidance, Christine M Aramburu-Drury

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the stigma of obesity and its effect on health care utilization. The associations between self-esteem, attribution for weight, body mass index (BMI), satisfaction with medical care and the behavior of delaying/avoiding health care were examined. King's Interacting Systems Framework provided the conceptual framework for this study. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by 216 women recruited from church sites in a southwest city; Correlations, multiple regressions, and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. An increase in BMI is associated with an increase in delay/avoidance of health care. Weight-related and non-weight-related reasons, …

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Governance Systems In The Emerging Corporation: An Ethnography Of The Hard Times At Softalk, Robert Schmidt Jan 1996

Governance Systems In The Emerging Corporation: An Ethnography Of The Hard Times At Softalk, Robert Schmidt

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study examines the use of sensemaking and power/influence in the governance process of an emerging corporation. It emphasizes the use of the interpretive paradigm in examining the ways in which reality is socially constructed by a board of directors. This text explores the definition of governance at the emerging corporation from the inside. It examines the effects of board decisions on the corporation by focusing on a specific emerging corporation--here fictiously identified as "Softalk Corporation"--in a major American city. Through this case the author examines how situations were officially defined, and, how these official definitions translated into real operating …

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The Effects Of Implementation Of Quality Management On Employee Productivity In The Lodging Function Of A Full Service Hotel: A Case Study Analysis Of The Bergstrom Hotels Corporation, Susan Elizabeth Corey-Tuckwell Jan 1996

The Effects Of Implementation Of Quality Management On Employee Productivity In The Lodging Function Of A Full Service Hotel: A Case Study Analysis Of The Bergstrom Hotels Corporation, Susan Elizabeth Corey-Tuckwell

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to conduct a qualitative, descriptive case study analysis of a hotel company in Wisconsin that has implemented Quality Management in the operations and administration of its three full service hotel properties. The three questions addressed in this study were: (1) Why did Bergstrom Hotels choose to implement Quality Management? (2) How was Quality Management initiated and supported throughout the company? and (3) What were the results on employee productivity? The last case study question addressed the hypothesis that Quality Management would have the effect of increasing the levels of employee productivity in the lodging …

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Capitalist "Communes" In The United States: The Commodification Of Urban Space And The Rise Of Master-Planned Communities, David Lee Derossett Jan 1996

Capitalist "Communes" In The United States: The Commodification Of Urban Space And The Rise Of Master-Planned Communities, David Lee Derossett

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The U.S. has experienced a dramatic proliferation of corporate master-planned communities, along with a related equally sharp increase in the numbers of people governed by private residential community associations (RCAs). Increasing by approximately 9,500 annually, RCA's are expected to grow from 130,000 in 1990 to approximately 225,000 by the year 2000. This trend is a manifestation of both the historical commodification of urban and community space and the gradual imposition of the corporate bureaucratic structure into community maintenance and governance. Intended to stimulate commodity need fulfillment and ensure the continued dominance of patriarchal bourgeois ideology, this new community form has …

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Estimating Pareto's Constant And Gini Coefficient Of The Pareto Distribution, Brian Christopher Hodge Jan 1996

Estimating Pareto's Constant And Gini Coefficient Of The Pareto Distribution, Brian Christopher Hodge

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The Pareto distribution is widely used to describe the distribution of incomes. The distribution can be defined by a location parameter c and a shape parameters a. The maximum likelihood estimators (MLE) and the uniform minimum variance unbiased estimators (UMVUE) for parameters a and c are available in current literature. An improved estimator for parameter a will then be found using a frequentist decision theoretic technique. It is then shown that this improved estimator is the generalized bayes estimator for a certain choice of priors; The Lorenz curve is a tool used to evaluate the share of income of sub-populations …

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Women's Educational Pursuits: Effects On Marital And Relationship Happiness, Michele Minetti Jan 1996

Women's Educational Pursuits: Effects On Marital And Relationship Happiness, Michele Minetti

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study uses a descriptive design to investigate how attending college may change a woman's perception of her happiness with her marriage or primary relationship. Also assessed is the presence of value change since entering college, and how such changes may affect the woman's perception of her marriage or relationship. Marital happiness was assessed in nine relationship domains by using a likert scale. The domains that showed a statistically significant decrease in marital/relationship happiness were: household responsibilities, social activities, money, and sex. The independence domain was the only one that showed a statistically significant increase in marital happiness. Ninety percent …

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The Attitudes Of Principals Of Catholic Secondary Schools Toward Teacher Empowerment: A Study Of Principals In The Western Region Of The National Catholic Education Association, David M Erbach Jan 1996

The Attitudes Of Principals Of Catholic Secondary Schools Toward Teacher Empowerment: A Study Of Principals In The Western Region Of The National Catholic Education Association, David M Erbach

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of principals of selected Catholic secondary schools toward aspects of teacher empowerment. The Attitudes Toward Teacher Empowerment Survey was developed to measure attitudes toward empowering teachers in certain decision areas and to examine attitudes about the effects of teacher empowerment; The instrument was reviewed by two separate expert panels and sent, in final form, to 201 secondary school principals in the western region of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). The selected principals returned 161 (80.1%) usable surveys; The first part of the survey, items 1 through 29, measured principal …

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The Utilization Of Selected Marketing Elements By Higher Education Institutions, Chester Donald Kajcienski Jan 1996

The Utilization Of Selected Marketing Elements By Higher Education Institutions, Chester Donald Kajcienski

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the utilization of selected marketing elements by higher education institutions enrolling 5,000 or more students by headcount. Selected marketing elements were determined by a content analysis of marketing textbooks which yielded 20 such elements: product, price, strategy, market, promotion, research, mix, analysis, advertising, target, competition, segment, service, information, demand, forecasting, place, purchase, image, and demographics. These elements became the basis for a survey instrument designed specifically for this project. Furthermore, 15 items on the survey instrument suggested various factors that might constrain the full utilization of marketing; In terms of the selected …

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Public Opinion And The Deconsolidation Of The Clark County School District, Matthew Michael Lusk Jan 1996

Public Opinion And The Deconsolidation Of The Clark County School District, Matthew Michael Lusk

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Without question, the Clark County School District, centered in Las Vegas, Nevada, has experienced a pattern of tremendous growth over the last decade. During that period, dozens of new schools have been built to alleviate the overcrowded conditions, with many more being needed as the population continues to expand. According to the literature, however, bigger school districts do not always mean better educated students, and the Clark County School District consequently has had to contend with a growing number of vocal community members concerned about its size and the perceived problems that accompany it; In light of these facts, a …

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Having Their Say: Parents Of High-Achieving African American Elementary Students Talk About The Home-School Relationship, Donna Mahler Jan 1996

Having Their Say: Parents Of High-Achieving African American Elementary Students Talk About The Home-School Relationship, Donna Mahler

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Having Their Say: Parents of High-Achieving African American Elementary Students Talk About the Home-School Relationship describes a qualitative research study that explored parents' perceptions of their role in education and how these perceptions translate into specific parent involvement practices both at home and at school. It also identifies the concerns that African American parents have about their children's schooling and offers their suggestions for improvement; Twelve parents of African American students identified as "high-achieving" and of varying socioeconomic levels participated in either a focus group discussion or in an individual in-depth interview about parent involvement in education. Epstein's theoretical model …

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The Distribution Of Household Labor: Comparing Spouses' Role Orientation, Ratings Of Satisfaction, And Amount Of Discussion, Christina Elaine Hanson Jan 1996

The Distribution Of Household Labor: Comparing Spouses' Role Orientation, Ratings Of Satisfaction, And Amount Of Discussion, Christina Elaine Hanson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study of 114 married couples investigated Role Orientation and how it related to satisfaction with the division of household labor. Husbands' and wives' Role Orientations were significantly different, with husbands being more traditional. Spouses Role Orientation scores were correlated. Husbands were more satisfied with the household division of labor. A wife's Role Orientation score was associated with her labor satisfaction, however, the husband's Role Orientation wasn't associated with his satisfaction. Couple's combined Role Orientations were related to their labor satisfaction, and as scores became more modern, couple satisfaction decreased. Therefore, the more modern a couple's household labor orientation, the …

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The American Church/State Quagmire: A Major Cause And A Proposed Solution, Mary Fleming Morton Jan 1996

The American Church/State Quagmire: A Major Cause And A Proposed Solution, Mary Fleming Morton

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The primary purpose of this thesis is to clarify possible legitimate interactions between churches and government bodies in America. Finding that the present interpretation of the First Amendment has actually precipitated much of the current controversy, evidence is presented of its lack of validity. Instead an alternative interpretation is offered that clearly shows that the American colonists had come to recognize an entirely new manner in which to organize a society. This new manner of organization gave sovereignty to the individual in two major societal systems: the political and the religious. The consequence of this was the recognition that churches …

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A Stadium Of Hope: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Promise Keepers, Matthew H Barton Jan 1996

A Stadium Of Hope: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Promise Keepers, Matthew H Barton

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The historical ebb and flow of the Men's Christian Movement has been one of interest and concern to the American public. This concern surfaced once again with the popularity of the Promise Keepers organization. This paper focuses on the rhetorical discourse and strategies of the Promise Keepers organization from a social movement perspective. This study examines the evolutionary states through which social movements evolve; look at specific examples of the discourse to examine the persuasive appeals; and address the leadership tactics and character of Bill McCartney, founder of the Promise Keepers.

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Music And Interpersonal Communication: An In-Depth View Of Ani Difranco And Her Lyrics, Robyn Jana Ginsburg Jan 1996

Music And Interpersonal Communication: An In-Depth View Of Ani Difranco And Her Lyrics, Robyn Jana Ginsburg

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study provides an analysis of music as a form of interpersonal communication by examining how independent singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco's music lyrics provide her listeners with a foundation for relationship formation based on empathy and self disclosure. This study divides DiFranco's song lyrics into three categories of folk music, more specifically, message, protest, and propaganda songs which provide her audience with an ideology to which her fans can relate. Additionally, DiFranco's messages fall into the psychological categories of emotion, perception, cognition, motivation, needs, and memory as well as the sociological categories which demonstrate how her messages reach society--through the folk …

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Housing Conditions & Demographical Survey: Housing Rehabilitation For The City Of North Las Vegas, Lisa M. Morris Oct 1995

Housing Conditions & Demographical Survey: Housing Rehabilitation For The City Of North Las Vegas, Lisa M. Morris

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The basis of this research, is to evaluate the North Las Vegas area in order to develop knowledge of what areas are in critical need of rehabilitation. Improperly maintained affordable housing is one of the largest sources of wasted resources. The research was obtained through a windshield survey process, which included approximately 12,000 homes in the North Las Vegas area to determine their conditions. The findings of the windshield survey was used to correlate the results of the housing conditions, with demographics such as: Population, Age Distribution, Racial Distribution, Median Income, Poverty Levels, Age of Homes and Female Head of …

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Unlv Magazine, Donna Mcaleer, Francisco Menendez Oct 1995

Unlv Magazine, Donna Mcaleer, Francisco Menendez

UNLV Magazine

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Collection And Utilization Of Child Abuse Statistics In American Indian Communities, Michelle Chino Jul 1995

Collection And Utilization Of Child Abuse Statistics In American Indian Communities, Michelle Chino

School of Public Health Faculty Research

Public health research in American Indian communities involves many complex issues that may both help and hinder the development of an effective research methodology and the collection, analysis, and utilization of data. These issues include: 1) the unique strengths and diversity of Indian cultures; 2) the complicated relationships that exist between federal, state, and tribal agencies; 3) the vast distances between communities and services that exist in rural areas; 4) extremely limited human and financial resources; 5) overlapping and often conflicting legal and jurisdictional authorities; and 6) an array of social issues including poverty, substance abuse, modernization, and assimilation. Defining …

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Resource Use Conflict In New York City's Catskill Watersheds: A Case For Expanding The Scope Of Water Resource Management, Krystyna Anne Stave Apr 1995

Resource Use Conflict In New York City's Catskill Watersheds: A Case For Expanding The Scope Of Water Resource Management, Krystyna Anne Stave

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Research

In New York City's water supply watersheds, controversy over water quality protection underscores both the need to expand the scope of water resource management and the challenges to doing so. This paper describes the response of watershed residents to !'Jew York City's efforts to avoid filtration mandated by the 1986 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments and 1989 Surface Water Treatment Rule. The emergence of a spectrum of stakeholder groups representing land owners, sport fishermen, businesses, environmental groups and local communities has brought social and economic issues not previously part of the City's water management program to the center of the …

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