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Identity Development, Identity Disclosure, And Identity Exploration Among Adolescent Sexual Minorities, Jenna A. Glover

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study investigated the utility of applying the social constructionist perspective to adolescent sexual minority identity development, disclosure, and identity explorations. Differences between middle and late adolescents and male and females were examined. No differences were found between middle and late adolescents on measures of identity development and identity exploration; however, differences in identity disclosure were found regarding history of accidental discovery of sexual orientation. Biological sex differences were found for identity development, disclosure, and exploration. Relationships between same- and opposite-sex attractions, behaviors, romantic experiences, and self-labels are presented. Trends in intentional disclosure patterns and unintentional discovery identify predicted reaction …

Raising A Bucket Calf, Robert Pate

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The 4-H Bucket Calf Project is designed for youth up through the summer of their 8th grade year.

The Competencies And Characteristics Required Of An Effective Project Manager: A Web-Based Delphi Study, Jennifer M. Brill, M. J. Bishop, Andrew Walker

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

This study explores the competencies required for a project manager to be effective in the workplace. We used a Web-based Delphi method to lead experienced project managers through an anonymous consensus-building process consisting of two rounds of surveys. The Round I analysis of 147 respondents, all with 20 or more years of project management experience, yielded 117 project management success factors, 78 of which were identified as “trainable” competencies. The Round II analysis confirmed 42 of the 78 competencies (53.8%) as “very important” to “extremely important” to project manager success. Important contributions of this study include: (a) reporting on project …

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes, April 17, 2006, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Commencement
• University Announcements.
• EPC Business
• ADVANCE Report
• Faculty Evaluations Report
• Committee on Committee Report
• Domestic Partner Benefits Proposal
• ARR Report
• PRPC Business

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, April 6, 2006, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

• Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Business Information Systems

• Prerequisite Change
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change

Department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development

• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Course Description Change

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• New Course
• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Course Description Change
• Prerequisite Change
• Delete Course

Department of Secondary Education

• Delete Course

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Add Corequisite

Department of Engineering and Technology Education

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Art

• Title Change, Credit Hour Change
• Delete Course

Department of English

• Repeatable for Credit

Department of History

• New …

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, April 3, 2006, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Legislative Review
• Searches
• PRPC Business

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, March 6, 2006, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Legislative Session Wrap-up
• PRPC Business
• Technology and Medial in the USU Classrooms

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, March 2, 2006, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change

College of Education and Human Services

• Credit Hour Change

Department of Elementary Education

• New Course
• Credit Hour Change
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• New Course

Department of Instructional Technology

• Delete Course

Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation

• Credit Hour Change

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Add Multiple List

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

• Pass/Fail Only

Intensive English Language Institute

• Pass/Fail Only

Department of Aerospace Studies

• Pass/Fail only

Department of Art

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Pass/Fail Only
• Prerequisite Change
• Inactivate Course
• Delete …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, February 2, 2006, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

• New Course

Department of Management and Human Resources

• Delete Course

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• Delete Course

Department of Psychology

• Credit Hour Change, Prerequisite Change

Department of Biological and Irrigation Engineering

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Credit Hour Change, Course Description Change
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Engineering and Technology Education

• New Course

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• New Course

Department of English

• Change to Pass/Fail only

Department of History

• New Course

Department of Music

• Change to Pass/Fail only

Department of Political Science

• Change to Pass/Fail only …

Zion National Park Environment Assessment/ Assessment Of Effect, Engineering-Environmental Management, Inc.

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This environmental assessment I assessment of effect examines in detail two alternatives: no action and the National Park Service preferred alternative. The preferred alternative considers rehabilitation of the roadway and associated structures on either side of Route 10 (Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway) tunnel. The road work would primarily occur on the east side of the tunnel in a 0.25-mile segment beginning at the east tunnel entrance. Modifications on the east side of the tunnel would include slurry sealing the road surface and scaling rock slopes on both sides of the road; re-configuring two parking areas; creating a painted center median with …

Livestock Grazing And The Utah Prairie Dog: Implications For Managing The Awapa, Jack Berryman

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Livestock Grazing and the Utah Prairie Dog: Implictions for Managing the AWAPA

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, January 12, 2006, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

College of Business

• New Course

School of Accountancy

• Delete course

Department of Business Information Systems

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change
• Prefix Change, Course Description Change
• Prefix Change, Course Description Change, Title Change
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• Prefix Change, Course Number Change, Course Description Change, Title Change
• Prefix Change, Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change
• Delete Course

College of Education and Human Services

• Course Description Change
• Remove Prerequisite
• Prerequisite Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• University Studies Request

Department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development

• Remove Prerequisites, Remove University Studies Designation …

Beneath These Red Cliffs, Ronald L. Holt

All USU Press Publications

In this new and updated edition---with a foreword by Lora Tom, chairwoman of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah---Holt recounts the survival of a people against all odds. A compound of rapid white settlement of the most productive Southern Paiute homelands, especially their farmlands near tributaries of the Colorado River; conversion by and labor for the Mormon settlers; and government neglect placed the Utah Paiutes in a state of dependency that ironically culminated in the 1957 termination of their status as federally recognized Indians. The recognition and attendant services were not restored until 1980, but the act revived the Paiutes' …

Use Of Predictive Models To Attribute Potential Effects Of Mixture Toxicity And Habitat Alteration On The Biological Condition Of Fish Assemblages, D. De Zwart, S. D. Dyer, L. Posthuma, Charles P. Hawkins

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Maintaining And Restoring The Ecological Integrity Of Freshwater Ecosystems: Improving Management By Refining Biological Assessments, Charles P. Hawkins

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Determinants Of U.S. Intercounty Migration, L. Dwight Israelsen, Ryan D. Israelsen, William J. Israelsen

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

Population growth in the United States during the last two decades of the twentieth century was accompanied by major population shifts at the county level. It is clear that the dominant cause of relative change in county populations has been intercounty migration, rather than immigration from abroad or differences in natural population increase at the county level. Studies of migration typically examine migration between countries, or, in the United States, migration between states. The very few studies done on Us. intercounty migration attempt to explain migration on the basis of a limited range of variables. The current study uses an …

The Distribution Of Mortality In U.S. Counties, L. Dwight Israelsen, Ryan D. Israelsen, William J. Israelsen

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

Previous studies on life expectancy by U.S. county have found large differences among counties in life expectancy at birth for both males and females. Various determinants of these differences have been identified, including economic, education, demographic, social, geographic, climatic, and environmental factors. This study uses mortality data to identify the distribution of mortality (age at death) and mortality Gini coefficients byU.S. county for males and females for each year between 1985 and 1994. The study also takes a preliminary look at differences in county mortality Gini coefficients among states, regions, and over time. The counties with the smallest degree of …

The Determinants Of The Distribution Of Mortality In Mountain States Counties, Anne Whyte, L. Dwight Israelsen, Ryan D. Israelsen

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

This study identifies the significant factors that affect the distribution of mortality by county in the Mountain States by using mortality data from the Multiple Cause of Death File of the National Center for Health Statistics. From this data, mortality (age at death) Gini coefficients are calculated for males and females for each county in the Mountain States (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming). These data are available for all counties only through 1989. Hence, the model of determinants of the distribution of mortality is tested using data from 1989-1990. Previous studies of the determinants of …

A Market For Immigration, Karl E. Israelsen, L. Dwight Israelsen, William J. Israelsen

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

Illegal immigration imposes large economic costs on U.s. taxpayers. The costs are disproportionately concentrated on citizens of southern border states and of other states in which illegal immigrants concentrate. The illegal immigrants themselves also suffer significant costs of migration, such as monetary payments for transportation to or across the border and physical costs, including death. These costs, as well as the benefits to the economy of the illegal immigrant labor force, have been the subject of heated political debate, and polls show that Us. citizens place the issue of immigration at or near the top of the list of domestic …

Record Of Decision: Operation Of Flaming Gorge Dam Final Environmental Impact Statement, U.S. Bureau Of Reclamation

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has completed a final environmental impact statement (EIS) on the operation of Flaming Gorge Dam. The EIS describes the potential effects of modifying the operation of Flaming Gorge Dam to assist in the recovery of four endangered fish, and their critical habitat, downstream from the dam. The four endangered fish species are Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius), humpback chub (Gila cypha), razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus), and bonytail (Gila elegans). Reclamation would implement the proposed action by modifying the operations of Flaming Gorge Dam, to the extent possible, to achieve the flows and temperatures recommended by participants …

Evaluation Of Immunomodulators, Interferons And Known In Vitro Sars-Cov Inhibitors For Inhibition Of Sars-Cov Replication In Balb/C Mice, Dale L. Barnard, C. W. Day, K. Bailey, M. Heiner, R. Montgomery, L. Lauridsen, P. K-S. Chan, R. W. Sidwell

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Compounds approved for therapeutic use and in vitro inhibitors of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) were evaluated for inhibition in the mouse SARS-CoV replication model. A hybrid interferon, interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) B/D, and a mismatched double-stranded (ds) RNA interferon (IFN) inducer, Ampligen® (poly I:poly C124), were the only compounds that potently inhibited virus titres in the lungs of infected mice as assessed by CPE titration assays. When mice were dosed intraperitoneally (i.p.) with IFN-alpha B/D once daily for 3 days beginning 4 h after virus exposure, SARS-CoV replication in the lungs of infected mice was reduced by 1 log10 …

Supplier Selection Construct: Instrument Development And Validation, Chin-Chun Hsu, Vijay R. Kannan, G. Keong Leong, Keah-Choon Tan

Management Faculty Publications

Purpose – To develop and test a reliable and valid supplier selection measurement scale that can be applied in different geographic regions, namely, the USA and Europe. Design/methodology/approach – A three-factor supplier selection measure is developed via extensive literature review and practitioner interviews. Psychometric properties of the survey instrument are evaluated using data from the ISM-US sample via exploratory factor analysis. Based on the results, the survey instrument is modified and the revised instrument is mailed to a larger sampling group (APICS-US and APICS-Europe). Confirmatory factor analysis is used to validate the proposed three-factor supplier selection construct and to test …

Setting Expectations For The Ecological Condition Of Running Waters: The Concept Of Reference Condition, J. L. Stoddard, P. Larsen, Charles P. Hawkins, R. K. Johnson, R. H. Norris

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

An important component of the biological assessment of stream condition is an evaluation of the direct or indirect effects of human activities or disturbances. The concept of a “reference condition” is increasingly used to describe the standard or benchmark against which current condition is compared. Many individual nations, and the European Union as a whole, have codified the concept of reference condition in legislation aimed at protecting and improving the ecological condition of streams. However, the phrase “reference condition” has many meanings in a variety of contexts. One of the primary purposes of this paper is to bring some consistency …

Migration Turnover Rates In United States Counties, L. Dwight Israelsen, Ryan D. Israelsen, William J. Israelsen

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

Studies of migration typically examine migration between countries, or, in the United States, migration between states. Recently, there have been several studies done on the determinants of migration at the county level. The current study introduces a new concept into the migration literature: the migration turnover rate (MTR). The migration turnover rate is similar to an employee turnover rate in that it measures the turnover through in-migration and out-migration of the population of an area during a given period of time. The MTR is measured as the minimum of gross in-migration and gross out-migration over the period, as a percentage …

Migration Turnover Rates In Mountain States Counties, William J. Israelsen, L. Dwight Israelsen, Ryan D. Israelsen

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

Studies of migration typically examine migration between countries, or, in the United States, migration between states. Recently, there have been several studies done on the determinants of migration at the county level. The current study introduces a new concept into the migration literature: the migration turnover rate (MTR). The migration turnover rate is similar to an employee turnover rate in that it measures the turnover through in-migration and out-migration of the population of an area during a given period of time. The MTR is measured as the minimum of gross in-migration and gross out-migration over the period, as a percentage …

Recollections Of Past Days: The Autobiography Of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer, Sandra Ailey Petree

All USU Press Publications

For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. Her record of those events is important, but there is much else of interest in her autobiography. In fact, it is a bit unusual that someone such as her would have left such an engaging record of her life. The daughter of an English gardener, Patience Loader became a boarding house servant, domestic maid, and seamstress. Converted to Mormonism, she shipped with her parents to America. They joined the ill-fated Martin company, …

A Voice In The Wilderness, Michael Austin

All USU Press Publications

In her writings, Terry Tempest Williams repeatedly invites us as readers into engagement and conversation with both her and her subject matter, whether it is nature or society, environment or art. From her evocation, in Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape, of an eroticism of place that defines erotic as "in relation," to the spiritual connectivity and familial bonds she explores in Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place and the political engagement she urges in The Open Space of Democracy, much of her work is about relationship, connection, and community. Like much good writing, her books invite readers into …

My Many Selves, Wayne C. Booth

All USU Press Publications

Wayne Booth, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, was one of the most important literary critics and English scholars of recent times. His books included The Rhetoric of Fiction; Now Don't Try to Reason with Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age; A Rhetoric of Irony; Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent; Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism; The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction; The Vocation of a Teacher; For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals; The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication; …

Access And Resilience: Analyzing The Construction Of Social Resilience To The Threat Of Water Scarcity, Ruth Langridge, Juliet Christian-Smith, Kathleen A. Lohse

All UNF Research

Resilience is a vital attribute that characterizes a system’s capacity to cope with stress. Researchers have examined the measurement of resilience in ecosystems and in social–ecological systems, and the comparative vulnerability of social groups. Our paper refocuses attention on the processes and relations that create social resilience. Our central proposition is that the creation of social resilience is linked to a community’s ability to access critical resources. We explore this proposition through an analysis of how community resilience to the stress of water scarcity is influenced by historically contingent mechanisms to gain, control, and maintain access to water. Access is …

Livestock Grazing And The Utah Prairie Dog: Implications For Managing The Awapa, R. D. Elmore, Terry A. Messmer

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

The Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens) is a federally listed species that occurs only in southwestern Utah. The Awapa Plateau in south-central Utah is one of three Utah prairie dog recovery areas. The prairie dog population in this area is below recovery goals established in 1991 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). In 2002, the USFWS approved three Utah prairie dog mitigation banks on the Awapa Plateau. Little information exists regarding how these mitigation banks should be managed to optimize benefits for the species. Past research has suggested that management actions to reduce shrub canopy cover …