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Principals' Perceptions Of Their Responsibilities And Practices Related To English Language Learners, Connie Yaqub Jan 2013

Principals' Perceptions Of Their Responsibilities And Practices Related To English Language Learners, Connie Yaqub

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine principals perceptions of their responsibilities for English language learners (ELLs) and their beliefs about what contributes to these students' academic success. The growing population of ELLs in the US face increased risk for underachievement, as recorded by traditional measures, yet little research investigates the critical role of the principal in the education of ELLs. This study focuses on 7 principals (nominated by other educators as exemplary) in public schools with high enrollments of ELLs found in rural, suburban, and urban districts in a northeastern state. Data came from individual open-ended initial …


The Borderpsychosocial Development Project: Is There A Specific Psychosocial Consciousness That Frames Development For Border Women?, María Gloria Munguía Wellman Jan 2013

The Borderpsychosocial Development Project: Is There A Specific Psychosocial Consciousness That Frames Development For Border Women?, María Gloria Munguía Wellman

American Studies ETDs

Often placed at the center of psychotherapeutic training rhetoric are the notions of cultural sophistication, competency, and responsiveness; however, these notions are often pushed to the margins of practice. This qualitative and interdisciplinary community project explores an important strand of psychosocial development that has always already existed, but had yet to be named. Psychosocial consciousness develops, through time, as a natural human response to our day-to-day experiences and encounters. These experiences and encounters form, reinforce, and perpetuate systems of understanding of self and others which profoundly impact our experience in the world. The exploration of the psychosocial development of a …


Savage Fakes: Misdirection, Fraudulence, And Autobiography In The 1920s, Whitney Purvis Rakich Jan 2013

Savage Fakes: Misdirection, Fraudulence, And Autobiography In The 1920s, Whitney Purvis Rakich

American Studies ETDs

In the 1920s, Americans grew increasingly interested in the figure of the primitive man, who was championed as the antidote to civilization's weakening effects on the modern human spirit. Concurrently in the field of American Studies, Vernon Lewis Parrington theorized about the effects of the "broad currents" of American life. the return to a primitive, natural self was just such a “broad current” of the day. With primitive conduct as the potential salve for civilized humanity, a handful of American authors of the 1920s used fake autobiographies to articulate the savage internal self. In the four texts that comprise this …


Linguistic And Cultural Factors Associated With Phonemic Fluency Performance In Bilingual Hispanics, Jennifer Bennett Jan 2013

Linguistic And Cultural Factors Associated With Phonemic Fluency Performance In Bilingual Hispanics, Jennifer Bennett

Psychology ETDs

Verbal fluency tasks are used extensively in clinical settings because of their sensitivity to a wide variety of disorders, including cognitive decline and dementia, and their usefulness in differential diagnoses. However, the effects of bilingualism on neuropsychological assessment, and verbal fluency in particular, are currently not completely understood. There is an increasing need to examine bilingualisms role in assessing verbal fluency due to the rapidly growing Hispanic population within the United States. This study investigated the performance of bilingual Hispanics in phonemic fluency compared to monolingual European-Americans using the Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT). Both the standard letters of …


The Politics Of Play: A Sociocultural Analysis Of Play In The Context Of State Preschool Standards, Michelle Croasdell Jan 2013

The Politics Of Play: A Sociocultural Analysis Of Play In The Context Of State Preschool Standards, Michelle Croasdell

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

The past decade has seen an explosion of brain research and early childhood policies resulting in academics as a priority at state-funded preschools. Although strongly supported through a century of research, play often is pushed out by a more formalized, academic curriculum. Under the direction of the No Child Left Behind Act (2002), and the Race to the Top' program, states have developed early learning standards to inform preschool teachers and direct the education and assessment of preschool children in the United States. Through content analysis early learning standards for the 50 states and the District of Columbia were examined …


The Interplay Among Religiosity, Heath, And Ethnicity : Changing Patterns In The U.S., 1972-2010, Belinda Vicuna Jan 2013

The Interplay Among Religiosity, Heath, And Ethnicity : Changing Patterns In The U.S., 1972-2010, Belinda Vicuna

Psychology ETDs

Because ethnic minorities continue to experience health inequities in America, the powerful social forces that help determine our health become all the more relevant to explore. Within this social context, an often overlooked factor is the role that religiosity plays in influencing health. This investigation explored the relationships among religiosity, health, and ethnicity. Primary aims were to specify the change that has occurred over time in religiosity, health, and socio-demographic variables and to determine whether religiosity has a unique influence on health for each ethnic group. The General Social Survey, a large, nationally representative dataset was utilized. Comparisons of correlations …


Whither The World Polity? A Contribution To The Study Of International Organizations Through Survival Analysis Of Oecd Accession Rates, Kathryn Overton Jan 2013

Whither The World Polity? A Contribution To The Study Of International Organizations Through Survival Analysis Of Oecd Accession Rates, Kathryn Overton

Sociology ETDs

Accession to international governmental organizations (IGOs) has become an important corollary of modern international relations. Not only have IGOs proliferated significantly over the past fifty years, but, institutionalist paradigms, such as World Polity theory, suggest membership to such entities is inherent to the definition of modern statehood. Although IGO accession is rather commonplace, a full understanding of the motivation and gains associated with such commitments is not fully established. The current project contributes to this scholarly debate by applying World Polity theory to the question of why IGOs actively invite certain states into membership negotiations. The author employs a survival …


The Effects Of Continuing Bond On Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Complicated Grief Among Parents Bereaved By The Suicide Of Their Child, Carol Capitano Jan 2013

The Effects Of Continuing Bond On Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Complicated Grief Among Parents Bereaved By The Suicide Of Their Child, Carol Capitano

Nursing ETDs

There is a paucity of research on the effect of parents maintaining a continuing bond with their child who died by suicide. Furthermore, there is a gap in the research literature regarding differences among the parental continuing bond, posttraumatic stress, and complicated grief between parents who directly witnessed the suicide or found the body of their child and parents who were notified of the suicide by indirect methods (police, clergy, family, media, etc). This quantitative study included a convenience sample of 219 participants (response rate = 63.29%) who self-identified as parents whose child died by suicide 6 or more months …


Gpsa Council Meeting, 1/26/2013, Graduate And Professional Student Association Jan 2013

Gpsa Council Meeting, 1/26/2013, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Meeting Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.


Honduran Magistrates Opposed To Police-Purge Law Sacked By Congress; They Appeal To Supreme Court, George Rodrã­Guez Jan 2013

Honduran Magistrates Opposed To Police-Purge Law Sacked By Congress; They Appeal To Supreme Court, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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Victims’ Compensation Law Goes Into Effect, Carlos Navarro Jan 2013

Victims’ Compensation Law Goes Into Effect, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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School Of Law Annual Report 2012-2013, School Of Law Dean Jan 2013

School Of Law Annual Report 2012-2013, School Of Law Dean

Annual Reports -- Law School (1951-2013)

The annual report for the University of New Mexico School of Law for the period July 2012 through June 2013.


Foundations Of Excellence Final Report, Office Of The Provost Jan 2013

Foundations Of Excellence Final Report, Office Of The Provost

UNM HLC 2018-19 Assurance Argument Evidence

The final report of the "Foundations of Excellence" initiative taken up by the university in the 2012-13 academic year to address problems and solutions to first year experiences of students. The "primary outcome of this project was an evidence-based action plan for institutional change and improvement" (i), which entailed considerations of academic advisement, new student orientation, and assessment.


Culture And Online Distance Learning, Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena Jan 2013

Culture And Online Distance Learning, Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Online distance learning (ODL) has become a global phenomenon transcending national, political, and geographical boundaries challenging distance educators to re-examine notions of teaching and learning and issues of culture inherent in cross-border delivery of online courses and programs. Rogers, Graham and Mayes (2007) note that the sheer amount of learning content being developed in the West (defined for this chapter as Eurocentric, North American, Australasian) and exported via the Internet to other countries, highlights the crucial need to explore questions of culture more thoroughly in our online course designs to provide a more equitable learning experience for all. Global universities …


La Verdad, El Poder, Y La Liberacion, Christine Zuni Cruz Jan 2013

La Verdad, El Poder, Y La Liberacion, Christine Zuni Cruz

Faculty Scholarship

A Reflection on Margaret Montoya, Mascaras, Trenzas, y Grenas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse, 17 HARV. WOMENS L. J. 185 (1994), 15 CHICANO-LATINO L. REV. 1 (1994)' Professor Margaret Montoyas Mascaras, Trenzas y Grenas: Un/Masking The Self While Unbraiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse1 was published during the first year of my entry into the legal academy as a visiting professor. This reflection on her influential article addresses three of the major themes that resonate most strongly for me. The first is the assimilative pull of the legal academic institution, the second is the power …


Mph Principles Of Public Health: Sample Final Paper Search Narratives, Jonathan Eldredge Jan 2013

Mph Principles Of Public Health: Sample Final Paper Search Narratives, Jonathan Eldredge

Principles of Public Health 2010-2017

No abstract provided.


The Legal Reader: An Expose, Michael J. Higdon Jan 2013

The Legal Reader: An Expose, Michael J. Higdon

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Overcoming Writer's Block And Procrastination For Attorneys, Law Students, And Law Professors, David A. Rasch, Meehan Rasch Jan 2013

Overcoming Writer's Block And Procrastination For Attorneys, Law Students, And Law Professors, David A. Rasch, Meehan Rasch

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Personnel File Of Fr. Ronald L. Bruckner, Catholic Church. Archdiocese Of Santa Fe (N.M.) Jan 2013

Personnel File Of Fr. Ronald L. Bruckner, Catholic Church. Archdiocese Of Santa Fe (N.M.)

Personnel Files

No abstract provided.


Mph Principles Of Public Health: Mesh Terms Handout, Jonathan Eldredge Jan 2013

Mph Principles Of Public Health: Mesh Terms Handout, Jonathan Eldredge

Principles of Public Health 2010-2017

No abstract provided.


Several Similarity Measures Of Neutrosophic Sets, Said Broumi, Florentin Smarandache Jan 2013

Several Similarity Measures Of Neutrosophic Sets, Said Broumi, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Coarticulation In American Sign Language Fingerspelling, Caitlin S. Channer Dec 2012

Coarticulation In American Sign Language Fingerspelling, Caitlin S. Channer

Linguistics ETDs

Fingerspelling is a category of American Sign Language (ASL) signs that are signed sequentially as an alphabetic representation. The present study proposes to examine the coarticulation and feature-spreading characteristics of fingerspelling. A preliminary study identified feature categories to be examined. In keeping with these results and feature categories, three hypotheses were constructed: (1) anticipatory effects are more common than perseverative effects, (2) coarticulation is most prevalent word medially, rather than word initially or word finally, and (3) larger articulators show spreading more often than smaller articulators and spread across multiple handshapes. To test these hypotheses, five fluent ASL fingerspellers were …


Early-Life Influences On Body Composition, Metabolic Economy, And Age At Menarche, Megan A. Workman Dec 2012

Early-Life Influences On Body Composition, Metabolic Economy, And Age At Menarche, Megan A. Workman

Anthropology ETDs

Prenatal energy balance and postnatal psychosocial experiences have been linked by separate literatures to maturational timing, adult body composition (e.g., height, skeletal muscle mass), and life-long differences in metabolic physiology. This dissertation examines the potential influences of prenatal energy balance and postnatal psychosocial experiences in simultaneous analyses designed to test whether they exert additive or interacting influences on adult body composition (chapters 2 and 4), metabolic physiology (chapter 3), and age at menarche (chapter 4) among samples of U.S. men and women. Evolutionary models that address human developmental plasticity are explored as possible explanations for the observed relationships.


Methods For Speculatively Bootstrapping Better Intrusion Detection System Performance, Sunny Fugate Dec 2012

Methods For Speculatively Bootstrapping Better Intrusion Detection System Performance, Sunny Fugate

Computer Science ETDs

During the last three decades, the designers of computer IDSs have been continuously challenged with performance bottlenecks and scalability issues. The number of threats is enormous. The performance of ID systems depends primarily on the quantity of input data and complexity of detected patterns. During noisy attacks, system load tends to increase proportional to increasing data rates, making ID systems vulnerable to flooding and denial-of-service attacks. Unfortunately, the number, type, and sophistication of threats is quickly increasing, outpacing our ability to detect them. The more we try to detect, the more computing and economic resources must be reserved solely for …


Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Alters Histamine H3 Receptor Modulation Of Glutamate Release And Long-Term Potentiation In The Rat Dentate Gyrus, Rafael Koerich Varaschin Dec 2012

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Alters Histamine H3 Receptor Modulation Of Glutamate Release And Long-Term Potentiation In The Rat Dentate Gyrus, Rafael Koerich Varaschin

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder exhibit long lasting behavioral impairments, such as learning disabilities, problems in executive functioning and memory deficits. Currently, there are no rationally designed, clinically available pharmacological tools to circumvent prenatal alcohol-induced cognitive deficits. Recently, using a rat model of voluntary drinking during pregnancy, Savage and collaborators (2010) showed that the inverse agonist of histamine H3 receptors reverses fetal ethanol-induced deficits in learning and memory, without further increasing cognition in control rats. These differential effects and the notion that H3 receptors reside in presynaptic nerve terminals to inhibit neurotransmitter release, led to the hypothesis that fetal …


The Rna Binding Protein Ksrp Destabilizes Gap-43 Mrna To Limit Axonal Elongation In Cultured Hippocampal Neurons, Clark W. Bird Dec 2012

The Rna Binding Protein Ksrp Destabilizes Gap-43 Mrna To Limit Axonal Elongation In Cultured Hippocampal Neurons, Clark W. Bird

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

The KH-type splicing regulatory protein (KSRP) promotes the decay of AU-rich element (ARE) containing mRNAs. Although KSRP is expressed in the developing and mature nervous system, very little is known about its role in regulating gene expression in the brain. In this study, we utilized in vitro binding and decay studies to examine whether KSRP regulates the stability of the GAP-43 transcript, an ARE-containing neuronal mRNA whose protein product plays a role in axonal growth and synaptic plasticity. We found KSRP destabilizes GAP-43 mRNA by binding to the GAP-43 ARE, a process that depends on the presence of the fourth …


Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 14, Issue 01, December 2012, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program Dec 2012

Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 14, Issue 01, December 2012, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program

OTras Perspectivas: UNM Occupational Therapy Program Newsletter

Acknowledging that the success of the Occupational Therapy Program hinges on the mutual investment of community and friends beyond the local community, the UNM Occupational Therapy Program faculty and staff have initiated this newsletter. The goal is to provide an additional forum for communication, and provide updates about the program's development, faculty, students, alumni, and friends.


Virtually Present: An Ethnography Of Communication Look At The Shaping Of Social Rules In Small Group Interactions Mediated By Mobile Devices, Pamela Gerber Dec 2012

Virtually Present: An Ethnography Of Communication Look At The Shaping Of Social Rules In Small Group Interactions Mediated By Mobile Devices, Pamela Gerber

Communication ETDs

In this study I describe the communication rules that inform how particular bar patrons use mobile device technologies to shape particular types of small groups. Mobile devices have increasing been naturalized into the communicative landscape and the effects of this need to be explored. I focus on a college bar, MVF, to answer the following research questions: (1) What are the sets of rules surrounding mobile device use in small groups at MVF during late afternoons and evenings? (2) What are meaning(s) users and other group members attribute to the use of mobile devices at MVF during late afternoons and …


Growing Home: Sacred Space And Contemporary Ecotopia, Andrew Goering Gingerich Dec 2012

Growing Home: Sacred Space And Contemporary Ecotopia, Andrew Goering Gingerich

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This thesis investigates the concept of ecocentrism and how an emerging ecocentric worldview might uniquely shape the built environment. This thesis is particularly interested in the role of sacred space in urban development, and how the notion of sacredness, unique to an ecocentric worldview, might affect various aspects of the built environment. These issues are explored in two basic parts. First, three basic worldviews are discussed\u2014the pre-modern worldview, the modern worldview, and the emerging ecocentric worldview--specifically on the topics of nature, space, and the city. Second, a qualitative research study of three ecotopian' communities is presented--Village Homes in Davis, CA; …


Stigma And Barriers To Accessing Mental Health Services Perceived By Air Force Nursing Personnel, Stephen Hernandez Nov 2012

Stigma And Barriers To Accessing Mental Health Services Perceived By Air Force Nursing Personnel, Stephen Hernandez

Nursing ETDs

This descriptive study assessed stigma and barriers to accessing mental health services in a convenience sample (N = 211) of Air Force nursing personnel, including 111 officers, 98 enlisted, and 2 of unknown grade, to answer the following research questions: (1) What are the perceived levels of stigma and barriers to accessing mental health services for Air Force nursing personnel? and (2) Does military grade affect perceived levels of stigma and barriers to accessing mental health services for officer and enlisted Air Force nursing personnel? The hypotheses were that there would be no difference between officer and enlisted Air Force …