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Managing Depression In General Practice In Pakistan: Do We Need To Re-Invent The Wheel?, Hashim Reza, Murad M. Khan

Department of Psychiatry

No abstract provided.

Writing A Defensible Personal Education Plan : Rationale And Design, Mary Kay Desenberg Johnson

Graduate Research Papers

Iowa requires documentation of qualitatively differentiated curriculum for identified talented and gifted students by schools using allowable growth funding. In response to this directive, a local special education Individual Education Plan (IEP) documentation format was modified to a Personal Education Plan (PEP) format for gifted learners.

Construction and refinement of the format continued over a seven year period. The use of the familiar IEP process seemed to afford credibility and was readily accepted by staff, parents, and administration. The PEP format held the program for gifted and talented to a high standard of accountability, and a six step model evolved …

Tolerance Of Eastern Gamagrass To Excess Aluminum In Acid Soil And Nutrient Solution, C. D. Foy

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Eastern gamagrass, Tripsacum dactyloides L., has been reported to tolerate a wide variety of soil conditions, including drought, flooding, and acidity, but its specific tolerance to aluminum (Al) has not been tested. One strain of this species, PMK Select Lot 94 SFG-1, was tested for its tolerance to excess Al in an acid, Al-toxic Tatum subsoil (clayey, mixed, thermic, Typic Hapludult) and in nutrient solutions containing Al. Roots were able to penetrate unfertilized Tatum subsoil at pH levels as low as 4.1-4.2 (1:1 soil-water), at Al saturations of 64 to 77% of CEC, and to tolerate Al concentrations in nutrient …

Turning The Gaze Back On Itself: Comparative Law, Feminist Legal Studies, And The Postcolonial Project, Brenda Cossman

Articles & Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

Environmental Risk Factors And Cancer In The Charleston Heart Study, Vicki Bishop Benard

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Existing research suggests that a variety of environmental factors play an important role in cancer mortality. The association between some of these factors and cancer mortality was examined using data from the Charleston Heart Study, a thirty-five year prospective cohort. Baseline measurements for tobacco use, place of residence, occupation, education, water supply and physical activity were made in 1960/63 on 2,283 participants. The vital status of the cohort was ascertained through 1994, and the underlying cause of death as determined by the nosologist was used to define cancer mortality. There were 294 cancer deaths identified over the 35-year period. Statistical …

The American Legal Faith: Traditions, Contradictions And Possibilities, David Ray Papke

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Perceived Social Norms On Attitudes And Behavior: An Examination Of The False Consensus Effect, Kathleen Patricia Bauman

Doctoral Dissertations

This paper examined the role of perceived social norms in relation to people's attitudes and behavioral intentions, specifically in regards to the false consensus effect (FCE). People are prone to numerous biases in judgments about peers' beliefs, including overestimating support for their own position (i.e., false consensus). These misperceptions can then shape people's beliefs and guide their behavior. This series of studies assessed the influence of this type of misperception on attitudes and behavioral intentions regarding controversial social issues. Study 1 demonstrated that people displayed false consensus for current social issues. Alterations in wording and order of presentation did not …

The Effects Of Actual And Perceived Parental Characteristics On Partner Selection And Perception, Glenn Gehar

Doctoral Dissertations

The present studies were designed to examine the template matching hypothesis, a prediction based on Freud's (1927) psychoanalytic theory which proposes that people choose romantic partners who are similar to their opposite-sex parents. While some research has demonstrated that such a phenomenon does exist for physical characteristics (e.g., Jedlicka, 1984), research on this phenomenon in regards to personality dimensions has been relatively inconclusive. The primary objectives of the present studies were to determine (a) the extent to which people choose partners with personalities similar to their opposite-sex parents, (b) the extent to which people perceive that their romantic partners have …

The Female Coach In The World Of Collegiate Sport: Accommodation And Resistance To The Dominant Sport Culture, Nita Marie Lamborghini

Doctoral Dissertations

This research explores the nature and meaning of collegiate coaching as an occupation for women and the extent to which women coaches accommodate to and resist the dominant sport culture. This study includes a brief historical analysis of the roots of coaching as an occupation for women and the emergence and nature of the "female model" of sport. To further explore the nature and meaning of coaching and the extent of accommodation and resistance to the dominant sport culture, forty-six (46) in-depth interviews were conducted with women collegiate coaches currently employed at an NCAA affiliated institution. A brief survey and …

Composition As A Mode Of Being: Politics, Ethics, And History In The Writing Classrooms Of Postmodernity, Lance Michael Svehla

Doctoral Dissertations

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. once commented that while he did not "deny the importance, on the level of theory, of the (postmodern) project," such a project did not help him when he was "trying to get a taxi on the corner of 125th and Lenox Avenue" (Loose Canons 37-38). The postmodern project lacked what Gates calls "practical performative force." The purpose of this dissertation is to establish postmodernity's practical performative force for the composition classroom. It addresses four central questions: What is postmodernity? What is its relationship to composition? Why should composition teachers and students care about this relationship? How …

Bodily Discourses: When Students Write About Sexual Abuse, Physical Abuse, And Eating Disorders In The Composition Classroom, Michelle Marie Payne

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation analyzes student texts about bodily violence written for Freshman English and advanced writing courses at the University of New Hampshire between 1994 and 1996. All the volunteers were white women, most aged 18-21. The project addresses four central questions: Why are students writing about these experiences? How are they writing about them? What assumptions inform teachers' responses to such essays? What larger cultural contexts shape how such experiences are represented and understood by students and teachers?

The primary materials are twenty-five student essays; interviews with students, teachers, and campus personnel; and observations of classrooms and staff meetings. Information …

This Is Gonna Hurt Like Hell: A Pentecostal Student Enters The Academy, Stephen R. Barrett

Doctoral Dissertations

The little that has been written about expressions of religious experience in the field of Composition Studies focuses on the many ways religious belief places its adherents at a disadvantage in writing classrooms. We discuss in our journals and staffrooms only those religious conservatives who are most expressive of their beliefs. Many others sit in silence during discussions that may reveal anything of their beliefs, fearing to offend teachers and peers or to expose themselves to offenses from others. Unfortunately, these silent students contribute little or nothing to our understanding of the abilities of faith-centered students. Many are writing with …

Csusb Viewbook (1997-1998), California State University, San Bernardino

CSUSB Viewbooks

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 7, Number 3, Summer 1997, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater Magazine

Profiles of alumni David Robichaud (class of 1983), Bob and Gail Todd, and Nancy Reed Imai (class of 1977). Also College News, Alumni Updates, and Class Notes.

Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 8, Number 1, Fall 1997, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater Magazine

Included is a profile of faculty member Nancy Street, plus College News, Alumni Updates, and Class Notes. Also included is the 1996-1997 Bridgewater State College Annual Report.

Merengue: Dominican Music And Identity, Paul Austerlitz

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

Merengue—the quintessential Dominican dance music—has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz unravels the African and Iberian roots of merengue and traces its growth under dictator Rafael Trujillo and its renewed popularity as an international music.

Using extensive interviews as well as written commentaries, Austerlitz examines the historical and contemporary contexts in which merengue is performed and danced, its symbolic significance, its social functions, and its musical and choreographic structures. He tells the tale of merengue's political functions, and of its class …

The Key 1997, Bowling Green State University

BGSU Key Yearbooks

Bowling Green State University 1997 Key Yearbook

Intersections Between Latcrit Theory And Law And Development Studies, Enrique R. Carrasco

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

[Review Of] Karen Christian. Show And Tell: Identity As Performance In U.S. Latino/A Fiction, J. Alemán

Ethnic Studies Review

Christian's crucial contribution to ethnic studies is her book's argument that ethnic identity is more performance than essence. Of course, this is an unresolved and essentialized issue, but Christian summarizes the debate well, situating her study in the performance camp as she relies on Judith Butler's theory of performativity to examine the inter-related performances of ethnicity and gender in Chicano/a, U.S. Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican texts. As Christian explains, static U.S. Latino/a identity categories create "collective fictions" that "regulate performances of gender, sexuality, and cultural identity," but alternative performances of ethnicity and sexuality, Christian argues, subvert these "collective fictions" …

Lesley News (November 1997), Lesley College

Lesley News

A newsletter published monthly during the school year by the Lesley College Office of Communications for the Lesley Community from 1991-1998.

Romer V. Hardwick, Janet E. Halley

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.

Representing Black Male Innocence, Joan W. Howarth

Scholarly Works

This Article is a case study of a California capital case. Drawing on cultural studies, the first part develops the social construction of Black male gang member, especially as that identity is understood within white imaginations. The powerful and frightening idea of a Black man who is a gang member, even gang leader, captured the imagination and moral passion of the decisionmakers in this case, recasting and reframing the evidence in furtherance of this idea. In fundamental ways, this idea or imposed identity is fundamentally inconsistent with any American concept of innocence.

The second part uses the case to investigate …

Reading Ella Cara Deloria's Waterlily For Cultured Speech, Gerry Philipsen, Eric Aoki, Theresa R. Castor, Lisa M. Coutu, Patricia Covarrubias, Lorelle Jabs, Melissa Kane, Michaela R. Winchatz

Iowa Journal of Communication

The authors discuss the use of a novel, Waterlily, by Ella Cara Deloria, for courses in communication studies. As a representation of the life and culture of Teton Dakotas in the time before substantial contact with European Americans, the novel reveals a distinctive outlook and system of practices with regard to communication. Thus it provides a striking counterpoint to assumptions commonly presented in courses in communication studies. An interpretive framework for examining such a novel, with particular reference to its portrayal of culturally distinctive ways of communicating, is presented and applied to Waterlily. Issues regarding the validity of …

Otter Realm, January 1997, Vol. 2 No. 3, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

The State of Our University Address -- Inter-Garrison Road/Bicycle Lane Improvements -- Paving the Way for Accreditation -- Yes. CSUMB Really Has Boats

Effect Of Media Constituents On In Vitro Culturing Of Cowpea (Vigna Unguiculata) Shoot Tip And Leaf Disk Explants, Mohanjeet S. Brar, Edwin J. Anderson, Teddy E. Morelock, Ronald W. Mcnew

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Cowpea is an important legume food crop that is commonly grown in Arkansas and numerous other southern states. The application of biotechnological approaches for the improvement of U.S. cowpea genotypes is currently not possible due to the lack of a regeneration and transformation system. Therefore, the first priority of our research efforts is the development of a plant regeneration system that will facilitate plant transformation studies. In an effort to optimize the media requirements for tissue culturing cowpea, we evaluated the in vitro response of shoot tip and leaf disk explants to various levels of Murashige and Skoog (MS) macro …

The Voice, Winter 1997: Volume 43, Issue 2, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Siblings Share Dordt's Campus; Combatting Culture Shock; Psychology Students Hold Research Conference; Students With Disabilities Get the Help They Need; Film Class Exposes Students to International Cultures; World Hunger Activities Draw Moderate Response; Students Get Cash on Campus; Being Filled; Angel Tree; Library Helps Students Become Information Literate; Rec Center Users Higher Than Expected; Parents Weekend Gets Rave Reviews; Environmental Studies Gets New Status; The Best Coffee is for the Birds; Students Environmental Club Puts Words Into Action; Poetry Reading Highlights Student Work; College Adopts a New Graphic Look; International Association Links Christian Institutions From Around the World; Faculty News; …

Understanding Audience Understanding, Paul A. Soukup

Communication

Communication study has approached the issue of audience understanding of messages from the perspective of the message and from that of the audience. On the one hand, the "powerful-message" construct paints the audience as passive recipients of the meaning presented in the media. On the other hand, the "active audience" construct places most interpretive power in the audience, stressing their selectivity of messages, their use of the media, their social positions, and their ability to generate new messages based on the media. A middle position sees audience understanding emerge from an interaction between messages and audience members.

Re-Imagining The Global: Relocation And Local Identities In Cairo, Farha Ghannam

Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Course Catalog 1997-1998, Csusb

CSUSB Course Catalog

Contents

ACADEMIC CALENDAR 4

THE CSU 7

THE UNIVERSITY 11

ACADEMIC PROGRAM 17

ACADEMIC SUPPORT SERVICES 25

STUDENT LIFE 27

ADMISSION 35

FEE SCHEDULE 43

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS 47

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS 57

CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS 65

EXTENDED EDUCATION 67

THE CURRICULUM (Undergraduate Degree Programs) 69

GRADUATE STUDIES (Graduate Degree Programs) 323

FACULTY 441

APPENDIX 459

INDEX 467

Introduction To "Voices & Visions: Refiguring Ethnography In A Postmodern Era", Cristina Kirklighter, Cloe Vincet, Joseph M. Moxley

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.