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Preliminary Validation Of A Native American Food Safety Knowledge Survey, Margaret Markham Siebert Jul 2012

Preliminary Validation Of A Native American Food Safety Knowledge Survey, Margaret Markham Siebert

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

The objective of this study was to develop and validate a food safety knowledge survey culturally appropriate for Native American Populations. A reiterative three-phased approach (survey generation and item construction, survey item review, and statistical item analysis) to survey validation was employed to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Surveys were given to 28 individuals fitting the demographic criteria: Native American adults who are primary food handlers with children under the age of 10. Surveys were analyzed statistically using item difficulty, item discrimination, and internal consistency. Key informant interviews were conducted with six participants who fit the inclusionary criteria. Key …

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How We Fight: Strategies At Emergence Among Animal Rights And Lgbtq Rights Organizations, Ryan J. Goodman Jul 2012

How We Fight: Strategies At Emergence Among Animal Rights And Lgbtq Rights Organizations, Ryan J. Goodman

Sociology ETDs

The common approach to the study of strategy among social movement organizations focuses on it as a causal variable related to various movement outcomes. This research examines strategy as an outcome to understand factors related to the determination of strategy by US social movement organizations. The analysis focuses on organizations operating within the Animal Rights / Protection and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer (LGBTQ) Rights movements, using Multinomial Logistic Regression models. These models explore and find some significance to the relationship between finances and strategy. Qualitative analyses of four organizations — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), …

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Capital Mediators: American Mining Engineers In The U.S. Southwest And Mexico, 1850-1914, Sarah E.M. Grossman Jul 2012

Capital Mediators: American Mining Engineers In The U.S. Southwest And Mexico, 1850-1914, Sarah E.M. Grossman

History ETDs

This dissertation analyzes the technical work and social milieu of American mining engineers to understand the daily negotiations by which private U.S. capital reached up to and across the southwestern border as part of an ongoing project of American territorial and economic expansion. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American mining engineers traveled all over the world as expert consultants and labor managers. The business negotiations, elite social networks, and gendered discourse of expertise' invoked by these technocratic professionals were critical influences in bringing the hard-rock mining districts of North America into the economic system of the United …

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Dancing Along The Tightrope Of Leisure: Puritans And Dance In Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts, Rachel A. Packard Jul 2012

Dancing Along The Tightrope Of Leisure: Puritans And Dance In Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts, Rachel A. Packard

Theatre & Dance ETDs

A more holistic view of the Puritans in seventeenth-century Massachusetts can be reached by looking at their complex relationship with leisure and its manifestation both in their dance practice and attitudes towards dance. This thesis takes a multi-disciplinary approach in bringing to light this understanding, consisting of research into a variety of fields including music, English history, Colonial American history, social dance studies, and theology. Chapter I lays out the theological and historical heritage of the Non-separatist Puritans who sailed to Massachusetts with John Winthrop in 1630. Chapter II progresses through a detailed exploration of Puritan dance examples and analyses …

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Cooking For The Patria: The Seccion Femenina And The Politics Of Food And Women During The Franco Years, Suzanne Dunai Jul 2012

Cooking For The Patria: The Seccion Femenina And The Politics Of Food And Women During The Franco Years, Suzanne Dunai

History ETDs

This study elucidates the importance of cooking manuals and recipe collections published by the Sección Femenina de la Falange (Womens Section of the Falange, 1934-1977) during the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1975) in Spain. The organization emphasized its dedication to pursuing women's interests to the political apparatus in its political rhetoric and experienced a substantial amount of autonomy from the Franco regime in communicating feminine ideals and social reform to the Spanish public. Recipes and cooking instruction provided the organization a unique way to access Spanish homes and reform the quotidian habits of Spanish women. The ideology of the Sección Femenina emphasized …

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Occidental Encounters: Early Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Travelers To Europe, Omran Doaa Jul 2012

Occidental Encounters: Early Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Travelers To Europe, Omran Doaa

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This study aims to examine nineteenth-century Occidentalism on which little research has been done. Understanding how the East views the West is not just an end in itself, but it can help us better understand post-colonial theory, which has always been more skewed towards Western views. The study will look at some of the tenets of modern Occidentalism, among them powerless discourse, knowledge, ambivalence, emancipation of women and the use of religion in legitimizing the discourse. I will also investigate the erroneous conception that Occidentalism is the opposite of Orientalism. Even though both fields of post-colonial theory share some common …

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A Comprehensive Approach To Teaching The Blues In The Music Classroom, James Balagurchik Jul 2012

A Comprehensive Approach To Teaching The Blues In The Music Classroom, James Balagurchik

Music ETDs

The purpose of this thesis is to provide music educators with suggestions of how to make the blues a part of their instruction and present this unique art form as a vibrant and living' genre critical to the understanding of our own American musical heritage. This thesis explores the music, history and culture, viewing 'music as culture,' and the African-American tradition whose contribution defines so much of our American music. It discusses the ways in which the blues can fit into a comprehensive and discipline-based approach to music education that satisfies the goals as set forth by the National Standards …

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Ending Poverty? Critical Interrogations Of Class Subjectivities, Agency, And Ideologies In Discursive And Embodied Texts From A U.S. Nonprofit, Brandi Lawless Jul 2012

Ending Poverty? Critical Interrogations Of Class Subjectivities, Agency, And Ideologies In Discursive And Embodied Texts From A U.S. Nonprofit, Brandi Lawless

Communication ETDs

This dissertation explores subjectivities, agency, and power relations that emerge in discourses and performances related to one U.S. nonprofit organization attempting to end poverty, referred to as Transforming Poverty Partnerships (TPP). The author analyzes training materials, interview transcripts, and performance texts documented through participant observation. This study reveals a number of discourses in each of the texts, which function to reproduce dominant societal ideologies about individual hard work as a pathway to success, individual responsibility to create change, the normalization of the middle class, and a reinforcement of whiteness. The author takes a praxical approach in using theories from critical …

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Quilting: An Examination Of Harriet Powers And Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, Jennifer J. Moreland Jul 2012

Quilting: An Examination Of Harriet Powers And Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, Jennifer J. Moreland

Art & Art History ETDs

African American quilting exhibits a long and rich history in antebellum and post-bellum America. Although hindered by their social status as slaves, African Americans were adroit artisans adept at producing exceptional quilts for personal use as well as for the plantation household. In the few surviving examples, slave quilts demonstrate a range of geometric improvisation, decorative patterning, and asymmetrical ornamentation. African American quilts are unique in their ability to articulate personal histories and narratives, religious ideologies, and communicate messages through color, pattern, and emblematic imagery. A close investigation of African and Euro-American design aesthetics is crucial to understanding the hybrid …

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Three Rivers As Transitional Zone: Considering A Collective Metanarrative In Pueblo Prehistory, Heather Kline Jul 2012

Three Rivers As Transitional Zone: Considering A Collective Metanarrative In Pueblo Prehistory, Heather Kline

Art & Art History ETDs

The Three Rivers petroglyph site in what is presently south central New Mexico represents important concepts for the study of southwestern prehistory. This site has been studied to a limited degree from the perspective of archaeological site surveys that have categorically classified the motifs represented on the petroglyphs, but at this point very little is known about the cultures that lived and created art in the Three Rivers area. The iconography of these images is remarkably similar to that represented on ceramics at both Mimbres during the Classic period (ca. AD 1000-1150), as well as Casas Grandes during the Medio …

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Summer 2012 Utton Center Newsletter, Utton Center, University Of New Mexico - School Of Law Jul 2012

Summer 2012 Utton Center Newsletter, Utton Center, University Of New Mexico - School Of Law

Publications

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Pattern And Process In Metabolic Ecology: From Biotic Interactions To Cultural Diversity Gradients, William R. Burnside Jul 2012

Pattern And Process In Metabolic Ecology: From Biotic Interactions To Cultural Diversity Gradients, William R. Burnside

Biology ETDs

Many ecological patterns and processes are functions of metabolism (Brown 2004), meaning the acquisition, transformation, and allocation of energy, materials, and information within the bodies of individuals and among members of human and other animal societies. Individual metabolic rate should influence behavior by determining the energy available for action as well as the rate at which the body requires fuel. First, I test a key prediction of the metabolic theory of ecology (MTE), that biotic interaction rates are characteristic functions of temperature. Findings support this prediction and suggest that herbivory, predation, parasitism, parasitoidy, and competition increase exponentially with temperature and …

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Reproductive Phenology Of Fishes Of The Rio Grande, New Mexico: A Genes-To-Community Approach, Trevor James Krabbenhoft Jul 2012

Reproductive Phenology Of Fishes Of The Rio Grande, New Mexico: A Genes-To-Community Approach, Trevor James Krabbenhoft

Biology ETDs

Reproductive phenology is a key life history attribute of long lived organisms that can strongly affect reproductive success and, ultimately, drive community composition. Understanding the ecological causes and consequences and genetic mechanisms shaping reproductive timing is key to predicting the outcome of environmental change (e.g., climate change). The three chapters that comprised this dissertation were focused on elucidating the ecological and genetic underpinnings of reproductive timing in the fish community of an arid-land river, the Rio Grande, New Mexico. In Chapter 1, we assessed reproductive phenology in the Rio Grande fish community with four years of young-of-year sampling data and …

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Identification Of The Wings Apart Transcriptional Unit In Drosophila Melanogaster, Ginny R. Morriss Jul 2012

Identification Of The Wings Apart Transcriptional Unit In Drosophila Melanogaster, Ginny R. Morriss

Biology ETDs

Muscle development is an evolutionarily conserved process. Mechanisms that govern the development of specific muscles in invertebrates can inform our understanding of how vertebrate muscles form. Understanding these processes allows us to translate developmental mechanisms to disease pathogenesis, as similar genes and developmental processes are affected by these diseases. In this dissertation, CG14614 is identified as the gene responsible for the wings apart phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster. This mutation leads to a loss of the adult jump muscle (TDT) in most cases and a greater than 60% reduction in muscle fibers in its least severe form. wap mutants fail to …

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Linking Environment To Ecology In Arid Land Consumers: Two Case Studies, Ian White Murray Jul 2012

Linking Environment To Ecology In Arid Land Consumers: Two Case Studies, Ian White Murray

Biology ETDs

The physical environment has a profound influence over many aspects of animal ecology, such as governing the pace and timing of phenology and the patterns of activity across space and time. In extreme habitats such as deserts, the most important components of the physical environment are precipitation and temperature. Not only do these vary temporally and spatially, but this variation may influence the life history and ecology of species. My research examines how variance in temperature and precipitation influences the ecology of two species of desert dwelling consumers (desert woodrats and desert tortoises) over differing temporal scales. In Chapter 1, …

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Effects Of Translocation And Climatic Events On The Population Genetic Structure Of Black Bears In New Mexico, Frederic S. Winslow Jul 2012

Effects Of Translocation And Climatic Events On The Population Genetic Structure Of Black Bears In New Mexico, Frederic S. Winslow

Biology ETDs

Population structure of the American black bear (Ursus americanus) in New Mexico has been shaped by anthropogenic and natural forces. Black bears occur in habitat islands throughout New Mexico with natural movement among islands influenced by periodic drought, resource limitations and dispersal. Both natural movement and human mediated translocations primarily involve male black bears because of their tendency to move farther distances and more frequent conflict with human dominated landscapes than females. Using DNA microsatellite analysis to investigate the degree of differentiation between different population segments (Fst =0.025 across genetic loci, range = 0.018-0.032) we determined that black bear populations …

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Anaerobic Digestion Technology: How Agricultural Producers And The Environment Might Profit From Nuisance Lawsuits, Catherine M. H. Keske Jul 2012

Anaerobic Digestion Technology: How Agricultural Producers And The Environment Might Profit From Nuisance Lawsuits, Catherine M. H. Keske

Natural Resources Journal

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Health Parameters Across The Lifespan Among The Ache Of Paraguay, John D. Wagner Jul 2012

Health Parameters Across The Lifespan Among The Ache Of Paraguay, John D. Wagner

Anthropology ETDs

This work provides an integrative approach for assessing population health among a group of indigenous South American forager-farmers, the northern Aché of eastern Paraguay. The Aché were full-time hunting and gathering nomads up until the time of first peaceful contact in the early 1970s when they experienced a devastating virgin-soil population epidemic that killed approximately 40% of the population, where all age and sex groups were affected more or less equally with the exception of a higher survival rate among reproductive-aged women. The Aché are now settled on several reservations and have fully recovered their population numbers. The Aché have …

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New Paleoclimate Reconstruction Techniques In Archaeology: Applications In Greece, New Mexico, And Portugal, Brandon Lee Drake Jul 2012

New Paleoclimate Reconstruction Techniques In Archaeology: Applications In Greece, New Mexico, And Portugal, Brandon Lee Drake

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation develops new techniques of analysis that make existing archaeological data more useful for understanding past climate change. These techniques are introduced through three key case studies in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, the Lower Alentejo of Portugal, and the Eastern Mediterranean. A 12,000 year record of pollen collected from packrat middens across Chaco Canyon were analyzed using a new normalization procedure to produce a Holocene record of piñon and ponderosa pine abundance. The normalization procedure, species occurrence, enabled statistical analysis of the data. Simple linear models indicated that piñon and ponderosa pollen were strongly correlated with …

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The Roles Of Carma1 And Pkcθ In T Cell Function And Immunity, Katy Korzekwa Jul 2012

The Roles Of Carma1 And Pkcθ In T Cell Function And Immunity, Katy Korzekwa

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

T cells are critical players in adaptive immunity. They migrate throughout the body scanning the lymph nodes for antigen, then migrate to an infection site to help clear pathogen. Migrating T cells use multiple receptors and adhesion proteins to migrate to and enter different tissues. While the cell surface molecules involved in T cell motility are well understood, less is known about intracellular signaling pathways involved in T cell migration. PKCθ and CARMA1 signal downstream of TCR activation to induce NF-κB activation. However, the roles of PKCθ and CARMA1 in other T cell functions are unknown. In this study we …

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Exploring The Use Of Synthetic Delivery Platforms And Small Molecule Adjuvants To Improve The Efficacy Of Spinal Interleukin-10 Gene Therapy For Chronic Neuropathic Pain, Ellen C. Dengler Jul 2012

Exploring The Use Of Synthetic Delivery Platforms And Small Molecule Adjuvants To Improve The Efficacy Of Spinal Interleukin-10 Gene Therapy For Chronic Neuropathic Pain, Ellen C. Dengler

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

The focus of the work in this dissertation is to improve the efficiency of a gene therapy for the treatment of chronic pain. The introduction, Chapter 1, is intended to orient the reader to the underlying physiological principles and anatomical structures involved in general sensory and pain transmission in the peripheral and central nervous systems. Pain modulatory systems are described in detail. Also included is a discussion of how peripheral nerve injury can provoke immune changes at the spinal level, including the activation of spinal macrophages and glial cells (microglia, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes) with the release of immune modulators, such …

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Boots On The Ground: A History Of Fort Bascom In The Canadian River Valley, James Blackshear Jul 2012

Boots On The Ground: A History Of Fort Bascom In The Canadian River Valley, James Blackshear

New Mexico Historical Review

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From Paper Trails To Dna Barcodes: Enhancing Traceability In Forest And Fishery Certification, Andrea Migone, Michael Howlett Jul 2012

From Paper Trails To Dna Barcodes: Enhancing Traceability In Forest And Fishery Certification, Andrea Migone, Michael Howlett

Natural Resources Journal

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Decision-Making Triggers, Adaptive Management, And Natural Resources Law And Planning, Courtney Schultz, Martin Nie Jul 2012

Decision-Making Triggers, Adaptive Management, And Natural Resources Law And Planning, Courtney Schultz, Martin Nie

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

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American Bar Association Section Of Environment, Energy, And Resources Symposium: Selected Addresses [Comments], Eileen Gauna Jul 2012

American Bar Association Section Of Environment, Energy, And Resources Symposium: Selected Addresses [Comments], Eileen Gauna

Faculty Scholarship

Opening remarks for Environmental Justice conference that reviews the growth and efforts made for environmental justice.

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Feeding Ecology And Life History Strategies Of White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys, Elizabeth C. Eadie Jul 2012

Feeding Ecology And Life History Strategies Of White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys, Elizabeth C. Eadie

Anthropology ETDs

Dietary niches have widespread effects on individuals life histories, behaviors, and morphologies. Capuchin monkeys inhabit a complex dietary niche that often entails hunting of relatively large vertebrate prey, tool-use, and extraction of embedded resources that other closely related and sympatric species do not exploit. In this dissertation I examine, a) how juvenile capuchins overcome the challenges of reliance on a difficult-to-acquire diet, b) at what age juveniles achieve maximum foraging return rates for difficult-to-acquire foods, and c) what nutritional benefits capuchins obtain from exploitation of these foods. In the process of addressing these questions I test two prominent hypotheses regarding …

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Subversion Through Inversion: Kent Monkman's "The Triumph Of Mischief", Monique Thérèse Belitz Jul 2012

Subversion Through Inversion: Kent Monkman's "The Triumph Of Mischief", Monique Thérèse Belitz

Art & Art History ETDs

Monkmans acrylic painting The Triumph of Mischief is the central subject of this investigation which includes its relationship to other paintings and objects in the installation The Triumph of Mischief. By applying Mieke Bal's narratology theory, the principles of carnivals as proposed by Mikhail Bahktin, the four dichotomies underlying Western movies, Monkman's appropriation of older art work, his use of various binary opposites and his inclusion of iconographic details from various art history epochs are explained. Investigating the painting from a postcolonial and postmodern theoretical angle demonstrates that several iconic images from Western art history are decolonized by mocking and …

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Pollination Ecology Of Agave Palmeri In New Mexico, And Landscape Use Of Leptonycteris Nivalis In Relation To Agaves, Angela E. England Jul 2012

Pollination Ecology Of Agave Palmeri In New Mexico, And Landscape Use Of Leptonycteris Nivalis In Relation To Agaves, Angela E. England

Biology ETDs

Where animals spend time can provide important clues to their ecological needs, but this information is very difficult to obtain for small volant animals. The research described in Chapter 1 was an attempt to discern how L. nivalis utilize the landscape in relation to the distribution of Agave havardiana in Big Bend National Park, Texas. I found that although the landscape use of Leptonycteris nivalis is centered on habitat with high concentrations of blooming A.havardiana, it is not restricted to those areas, and furthermore adults and juveniles may differ in their behavior. Adult females may remain near food sources in …

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2011 Annual Report, Joseph A. Cook Jun 2012

2011 Annual Report, Joseph A. Cook

Annual Reports

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Chevron Faces Asset Seizure In Brazil Over $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment, Karen Hinton Jun 2012

Chevron Faces Asset Seizure In Brazil Over $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment, Karen Hinton

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This article provides information about the second legal enforcement action filed by Ecuadorian indigenous communities to force Chevron to pay for the clean-up of an oil disaster that resulted in several health problems and environmental destruction. The communities are requesting the seizure over $18 billion in company assets. The article also discusses additional charges existing against Chevron. Also included are a copy of the complaint against Chevron (in Portuguese) and an unofficial translation in English.

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