Digital Commons Network^™

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

The Scientific Validity Of Subjective Concepts In Models Of Animal Welfare, Françoise Wemelsfelder

Animal Welfare Collection

This paper takes a closer look at the subjectivity/objectivity relationship, as it plays a role in the science of animal welfare. It argues that subjective, experiential states in animals such as well-being and suffering are, contrary to what is often assumed, open to empirical observation and scientific assessment. The presumably purely private, inaccessible nature of such states is not an inherent property of these states, but derives from their misguided conception as ‘causal objects’ in mechanistic models of behaviour. This inevitably endows subjective experience with a ‘hidden’ status. However, subjective experience should be approached on its own conceptual grounds, i.e. …

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 30 Issue 2

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

The Unstoppable Aeginrst Machine, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Previous issues of Word Ways have contained the various transposals of the letter AEGINRST, building on Dmitri Borgmann's initial attempts in Language on Vacation. Ross Eckler's superb Making the Alphabet Dance presented all known 157 transposals of these letters.

Avian Tautonyms, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

In my "AEIOU Words in Biology" in the February 1994 Word Ways, I conjectured that the Boat-billed Heron, Cochlearius cochlearius cochlearius, was possibly unique in having the five vowels once in each of its genus, species and subspecies names. Since then i have discovered a further 51 genus/species/subspecies trinomial tautonyms from the world of birds.

Single-Letter Words, Stephen J. Chism, Andrea Cantrell

Word Ways

Basic building blocks of the English language, the good old ABCs, are frequently used singly to convey an entire word or concept. More than just popular acronyms or initialisms, single-letter words help communicate simply and succinctly complex processes, well-known organizations, familiar brand names, legal designations, and physical objects from large to small.

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Legal Writing As A Kind Of Philosophy, Joel R. Cornwell

Mercer Law Review

Post-structuralist theories of textual meaning have been integrated into legal education in various ways, notably through the influence of the Critical Legal Studies movement. Ironically, legal writing courses, the portion of the first-year curriculum ostensibly allotted to techniques of dissecting and manipulating language, have largely ignored the insights of analytical philosophy and literary deconstruction indirectly appropriated in other courses. The standard models remain algorithmic, reinforcing a conservative view of writing as an applied lexigraphic skill, essentially void of the substance taught in nonwriting courses. This conceptual disjunction between writing and thought engenders and feeds the attitude that legal writing courses …

Amcs Activities Newsletter, No. 22, May 1997, Bill Mixon

KIP Articles

Contents: Authors' addresses -- Mexico News -- Deep Pits Lists -- Long and Deep Caves Lists -- History of Mexican Speleology to 1992 -- Sistema Cheve 1995 -- Past Explorations in Tequila, Veracruz -- 1995 Tequila, Veracruz, Expedition -- 1996 Ejido Jacinto Pat Diving -- Zongolica, Oaxaca, Winter 1995-1996 -- Cuachalalate Cave, Jalisco -- Caving in Northern Coahuila -- Cueva de Santa Cruz, Oaxaca -- Cerro Grande 1995-1996 -- Sotano de Los Tres Ojos Verdes -- Ridgewalking in Xilitla -- Caving in the Sierra Madre Oriental, SLP -- Pihuamo River Caves, Jalisco -- The Coahuila Highlands -- Cerro Blanco, Chiapas …

Orality As The Key To Understanding Apostolic Proclamation In The Epistles, Thomas Winger

Doctor of Theology Dissertation

Redaction criticism and its modern successors in the literary field, while they give more credit to the text and the author, have at the same time mired the academy again into a modern mud of sources and manipulation. There is promise in certain new paths—rhetoric, reader-response, speech-act theory, methods which we will note briefly in the first chapter. But finally we must move out of the "academy" and into the church. For the orality of Scripture is not just about its origin but also about its use and purpose. The Scriptures are a liturgical piece. They belong not on the …

Book Review: Postmodern Legal Movements: Law And Jurisprudence At Century's End By Gary Minda, Chris Sagers

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Postmodem Legal Movements does two things. First, the bulk of the book provides an overview of American jurisprudence, from Christopher Columbus Langdell to the present. This overview is necessary because, in order to understand "postmodem forms of jurisprudence, we must first explore what came before postmodernism, that is, modernism" (p. 5). Second, the relatively short latter portion of the book presents an argument about the current state of American legal scholarship and its future. Minda's picture of contemporary legal thought is that of a paradigm shift in the making.

Postmodern Legal Movements will prove useful to those in search of …

Factors Contributing To Deaf And Gay Identity In Male College Students, James R. Brune

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

The Deaf Gay community is unique in that individuals who affiliate themselves with members of this community maintain dual identities – Deaf identity and Gay identity. Since there is a lack of formal research on this phenomenon, this pilot study was formulated as a way to take a preliminary look at the relationship between Deaf identity and Gay identity, and the factors contributing to the development of each. A sample of 21 subjects completed a survey which asked questions about the individual’s Deaf identity development, “coming out” process, Gay identity development, and affiliation with the Deaf Gay community. Non-parametric statistical …

Effects Of A Visual-Gestural Cuing System On The Reduction Of Phonological Processes In Children With Down Syndrome And Low Speech Intelligibility, Jennifer Barthel

Theses and Dissertations

Down syndrome, or Trisomy 21, is an autosomal dominant chromosomal aberration associated with an extra twenty-first chromosome. Down syndrome causes a variety of physical and cognitive characteristics that make speech and language problems probable Phonology is one such area in which disorders commonly occur for this population As young children acquire the adult sound system, they commonly simplify their productions through the use of phonological processes. Children with Down syndrome use phonological processes for a longer period of time than the typically developing child, often rendering their speech unintelligible.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical efficacy …

Lux Et Lex: Volume 4, Number 1, Janet Spaeth, Bob Garrett, Asako Yoshida, Cynthia Shabb, Betty Gard, Jean Anderson

Lux et Lex

This issue of Lux et Lex, a publication of the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota, was published in May 1997.

Electrophysiological Correlates Of Reading Processes In School Age Children, Catherine E. Scott

Honors Theses

Orthographic and phonological decoding skills are known to be important for learning to read. In an attempt to develop physiologically based screening tools which may identify children at risk for developing these skills, Auditory Event Related Potentials (ERP) were recorded from 84 nine-year-olds to a series of Probe tones while they were engaged in a series of orthographic, phonological, and spelling tasks. Electrodes were applied over both hemispheres at the frontal, temporal, and parietal regions of the scalp. Analyses focus on the relationship between hemisphere differences and children's performance on each of these tasks.

Faculty Senate Chronicle May 1, 1997, Heather M. Loughney

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

Minutes for the regular meeting of The University of Akron Faculty Senate on May 1, 1997.

The Geography Of Rio Grande Pueblos Revealed By Spanish Explorers, 1540-1598, Elinore M. Barrett

Research Papers

Scholarly and popular interest in the Pueblo settlements of the American Southwest has persisted for well over a century and has given rise to innumerable studies carried out to satisfy these interests. The present study focuses on the theme of settlement geography and involves an attempt to identify the pueblos of the Rio Grande Region that were occupied during the period of Spanish exploration, 1540-1598, before that pattern began to be altered by the impact of subsequent Spanish settlement. It is in this sense that the term geography is used, rather than in its wider meaning that would include consideration …

Annual Report Of Research And Creative Productions By Faculty And Staff From January To December, 1997., Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs. Morehead State University.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Reports and Publications

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 1997.

Children With Language Delays Enrolled In Head Start Programs, Laurel A. Hulteng

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Review: David Lyle Jeffrey, People Of The Book: Christian Identity And Literary Culture (Eerdman's, 1996), James Mark Shields

Other Faculty Research and Publications

Book Review: David Lyle Jeffrey, People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture (Eerdman's, 1996)

Between Expectations And Hesitations: Romanian-American Relations, 1938-1940, Emma Porfireanu

Student Work

Romanian-American relations between 1938 and 1940 evolved at an oscillating path and developed asymmetrically according to the pattern o f a big power-small power relationship. This period presents particularly interesting features due to international trends and the evolution of Romanian internal situation. The United States did not consider the East Central European region (where Romania was situated) to have a specific importance for its national interest. Therefore, the foreign policy decision-makers of the State Department did not designed a strategy toward East Central Europe in the interwar period. Moreover, this region had little to offer to the United States strategically, …

Reverse Mainstreaming As An Alternative Model For Integration, Colleen E. Garland

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Scores For Adults With Aphasia On The Western Aphasia Battery And Ratings On The Functional Assessment Of Communcation Skills For Adults, Sarah Ranum-Ravnaas

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine for adults with aphasia the relationship between scores on the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) and ratings on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Functional Assessment of Communication Skids for Adults (ASHA FACS).

Sixteen subjects who had previously incurred a left cerebral vascular accident participated in this study including seven adults with nonfluent aphasia and nine adults with fluent aphasia. Each subject was administered the WAB and rated on the ASHA FACS within a two week period in 1997. Subjects ranged in jage from 60 to 91 years with a mean age of 78.44 years. …

The Relationship Between Observation And Total Aircraft And Simulator Training Times In Aviation Instruction, Scott P. Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

This study takes an initial examination of the paired student flight training methodology used by the Aviation Department of the University of North Dakota's Center for Aerospace Sciences from the standpoint of observational learning. An analysis was performed on the relationship between observation time and total flight and simulator time logged by students in the completion of particular flight courses. The study involved student flight records from four flight courses ranging from primary to advanced pilot training, over a time period from the Fall of 1994 to the Spring of 1996.

It was found that only one of the relationships …

Cultural Criticism Of Law, Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg

Journal Articles

Professors Binder and Weisberg expound a "cultural criticism" of law that views law as an arena for composing, representing, and contesting identity, and that treats identity as constitutive of the interests that motivate instrumental action. They explicate this critical method by reference to "New Historicist" literary criticism, postmodern social theory, and Nietzchean aesthetics. They illustrate this method by reviewing recent scholarship of two kinds: First, they explore how legal disputes take on expressive meaning for parties and observers against the background of legal norms regulating or recognizing identities. Second, they examine "readings" of the representations of character, credit, and value …

The Parthenon, May 1, 1997, Marshall University

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

Comments From A United Kingdom Perspective, Anthony W. Bradley

Cardozo Law Review

The given facts require us to consider whether Harmonia's National Brotherhood and Sisterhood Youth Organisation Act (the "Act") and action taken under it infringe the requirement that all legislation in Harmonia must conform with constitutional standards of liberty, equality, solidarity, and tolerance. Since judicial review of primary legislation is not possible under the unwritten constitution of the United Kingdom, British legal experience has nothing to say on the main issues of constitutionality.

Leadership For Learning: Narratologic Pedagogy And Knowledge Construction In Higher Education, Susan M. Mccabe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Leadership and learning are human activities occurring within an interpersonal, social context. This study was concerned with rendering the lived experiences of leaders and learners as intelligible, allowing for understanding of factors affecting knowledge construction and learning in higher education settings. The individual, personal experiences of teachers and learners were explored in order to identify factors that can be influenced by teacher leadership. Phenomenology was the philosophical and methodological structure of this study. Fifty-two nursing students enrolled in a senior level course at a regional state university participated in the study, as well as the two course co-teachers. All participants …

A Formative Evaluation Of The Latino Parent's Association Of The San Mateo Union High School District, Viviana G. Obando-Enriquez

Master's Projects

No abstract provided.

Acculturation And Response Style On Mexican Americans On The Millon Index Of Personality Styles, Alicia Stephens Guffey

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This research investigated response style differences between highly acculturated and low acculturated Mexican-Americans on the Negative Impression (NI) and Positive Impression (PI) Scales of the Millon Index of Personality Styles (Millon, 1994). The MIPS is a questionnaire designed to measure personality styles of normally functioning adults. Research has suggested that culturally distinct response styles are common in less acculturated Mexican-Americans. If present, these culturally distinct styles could be misinterpreted and have a negative or harmful impact on the assessment of Mexican-Americans. Analyses of covariance on data from two culturally distinct groups of Mexican-American college students, with age, gender, educational level, …