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Distance Perception: A Comparison Of In-Class And Distance-Learning Psychology Of Perception Classes, Greg C. Elvers, Donald J. Polzella Jan 2000

Distance Perception: A Comparison Of In-Class And Distance-Learning Psychology Of Perception Classes, Greg C. Elvers, Donald J. Polzella

Psychology Faculty Publications

Fifty students were randomly assigned to take a perception class either in a traditional lecture or in a distance-learning format in which the students attended class only to take tests. The results failed to suggest that the students in the distance-learning condition performed differently in the course than the lecture students. There were differences in what the distance-learning and the lecture students found useful and what they disliked about the course. These findings could be used to help design better distance-learning courses.

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Limited By Law? Gender, Corporate Law And The Family Firm, Mary G. Condon Jan 2000

Limited By Law? Gender, Corporate Law And The Family Firm, Mary G. Condon

Articles & Book Chapters

The business enterprise is central to the operation of the Canadian capitalist economy in that it is a vehicle for the accumulation of profit, as well as a significant social location of employment. It is therefore one of the key mechanisms through which inter-class relations are mediated. A number of feminist scholars have pointed out that those class relations cannot be understood in isolation from gender relations. As Folbre and Hartmann (1988: 192) note disparagingly, 'the rhetoric of class interest simply subsumes the possibility of gender interests .' In their historical study of the English middle class between 1780 and …

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Does Activity Choice Matter? The Relation Between Activity Choice And Adolescent Emotional Wll-Being, A. M. Schubbe Jan 2000

Does Activity Choice Matter? The Relation Between Activity Choice And Adolescent Emotional Wll-Being, A. M. Schubbe

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

While involvement in activities generally enhances academic achievement and psychological health in adolescents, it can also have negative affects on certain groups of students. This study examines the relations between adolescents' activity choices (math, English, sports, and music) and emotional well-being indicators (happiness, anxiety, depression, resilience, and self-esteem). Specifically, the different activities adolescents believe they are best at are explored in relation to self-reported well being. In addition, the self-concept of ability in all four activities was assessed at the beginning and end of a four-year period. High self-concept of ability in any of these domains appears to be a …

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Gary Karpinski - Aural Skills Acquisition, David Butler Jan 2000

Gary Karpinski - Aural Skills Acquisition, David Butler

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

Gary Karpinski, Aural Skills Acquisition: The Development of Listening, Reading, and Performing Skills in College-Level Musicians. Oxford University Press, 2000. Reviewed by David Butler. The book makes an ironic first impression. When you pick it up initially, you can't help thinking that its massive title (truncated from this point on to Aural Skills Acquisition) seems misplaced on anoctavo-sized book, not quite two centimeters thick. But the title is much more appropriate than you first suspect.Aural Skills Acquisition is not just one more aural skills manual, filled to the edges with specimens for sight-singing and dictation. Rather, its focus is the …

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Executive Authority For National Security Surveillance, William C. Banks, M. E. Bowman Jan 2000

Executive Authority For National Security Surveillance, William C. Banks, M. E. Bowman

American University Law Review

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Keynote Address: Resolving Tensions Between Copyright And The Internet, Lewis A. Laplan, Walter A. Effros, Joyce E. Taber Jan 2000

Keynote Address: Resolving Tensions Between Copyright And The Internet, Lewis A. Laplan, Walter A. Effros, Joyce E. Taber

American University Law Review

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Seasonal And Spatial Variation Of Subgrade Response, Mustaque Hossain, Stefan Romanoschi, Andrew J. Gisi Jan 2000

Seasonal And Spatial Variation Of Subgrade Response, Mustaque Hossain, Stefan Romanoschi, Andrew J. Gisi

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications - Archive

Temperature, subgrade moisture content, and Falling Weight Defleetometer (FWD)-deflection data were collected monthly on four asphalt pavement test sections in Kansas for a year. The subgrade moduli were baekealeulated using the elastic layer theory. It was found that for almost all sites, the monthly variation in subgrade moisture content was not very significant over the seasons. The patterns of subgrade response, in terms of subgrade moduli versus time, simulated sine-shaped forms signifying a possible temperature effect. Higher variabilities across the site were associated with the extreme temperature conditions, usually very low or high average pavement temperatures. In all cases, the …

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Milk Enough For All : Food And Identity In Toni Morrison's 'Beloved', Julie Marie Mcgoldrick Jan 2000

Milk Enough For All : Food And Identity In Toni Morrison's 'Beloved', Julie Marie Mcgoldrick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Fortnightly - 2000 Jan 2000

Fortnightly - 2000

Fortnightly Collated by Year

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The Golden Fields Of Santo Domingo: A Historical Analysis Of America's Obsession With The Dominican Republic During The Nineteenth Century, Dennis W. Pennington Jan 2000

The Golden Fields Of Santo Domingo: A Historical Analysis Of America's Obsession With The Dominican Republic During The Nineteenth Century, Dennis W. Pennington

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

In this work, the term "Santo Domingo" denotes one of three places: Santo Domingo City, the province of Santo Domingo, or the island country of Santo Domingo. Early history is the history of Santo Domingo City. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, the term also meant the provincial division ofland in the southeastern quadrant of the island that incorporated Santo Domingo City. When the Spanish were in control of most, if not all, of the island, the name Santo Domingo designated this kingdom. It not only included Santo Domingo City, the hub of activity in early Spanish American history, …

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Postcolonial Theory And The United States: Race, Ethnicity, And Literature, A. Singh, Peter Schmidt Jan 2000

Postcolonial Theory And The United States: Race, Ethnicity, And Literature, A. Singh, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a "transnational" moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid identities within nation-states and diasporic identities across national boundaries. Studies addressing issues of race, ethnicity, and empire in U.S. culture have provided some of the most innova-tive and controversial contributions to recent scholarship. "Postcolonial Theory and the United States: …

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Slow Airs, Nathalie Anderson Jan 2000

Slow Airs, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Teaching Romeo And Juliet With Troilus And Cressida And Antony And Cleopatra, Thomas H. Blackburn Jan 2000

Teaching Romeo And Juliet With Troilus And Cressida And Antony And Cleopatra, Thomas H. Blackburn

English Literature Faculty Works

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"A Sight-Draft Dated Yesterday:" Faulkner's Uninsured Immortality, Philip M. Weinstein Jan 2000

"A Sight-Draft Dated Yesterday:" Faulkner's Uninsured Immortality, Philip M. Weinstein

English Literature Faculty Works

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Predicates And Temporal Arguments, Theodore B. Fernald Jan 2000

Predicates And Temporal Arguments, Theodore B. Fernald

Linguistics Faculty Works

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The Athabaskan Languages: Perspectives On A Native American Language Family, Theodore B. Fernald, P. R. Platero Jan 2000

The Athabaskan Languages: Perspectives On A Native American Language Family, Theodore B. Fernald, P. R. Platero

Linguistics Faculty Works

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Generalizations In Navajo, Theodore B. Fernald Jan 2000

Generalizations In Navajo, Theodore B. Fernald

Linguistics Faculty Works

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Sacred And Secular Issues In Navajo Education, Theodore B. Fernald, P. R. Platero Jan 2000

Sacred And Secular Issues In Navajo Education, Theodore B. Fernald, P. R. Platero

Linguistics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

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"Working" With The Ada's "Regarded As" Definition Of A Disability, Thomas Simmons Jan 2000

"Working" With The Ada's "Regarded As" Definition Of A Disability, Thomas Simmons

Faculty Publications

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits discrimination against and mandates accommodations for individuals with disabilities. As a threshold matter, the Act requires the plaintiff to demonstrate that she is an individual with a disability; that is, that she has an actual disability or is "regarded as" having a disability as the statute defines it. This article discusses the threshold "regarded as" showing as refined by three Supreme Court cases decided in the summer of 1999. Although in the past the "regarded as" definition has often played "second fiddle" to the "actual disability" definition, the author suggests that there …

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Adolescent Girls' Livelihoods. Essential Questions, Essential Tools: A Report On A Workshop, Carey Meyers Jan 2000

Adolescent Girls' Livelihoods. Essential Questions, Essential Tools: A Report On A Workshop, Carey Meyers

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This report, co-published by the Population Council and the International Center for Research on Women, describes a workshop convened in Cairo in 1999 to learn more about the nature of both younger and older adolescents' work experience, differentiate the particular needs and potentials of adolescent girls, and identify programs and policies that might have promise for supporting them.

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Alone You Are Nobody, Together We Float: The Manuela Ramos Movement, Judith Bruce, Debbie Rogow Jan 2000

Alone You Are Nobody, Together We Float: The Manuela Ramos Movement, Judith Bruce, Debbie Rogow

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Quality/Calidad/Qualité, a publication of the Population Council, highlights examples of clinical and educational programs which bring a strong commitment, as well as innovative and thoughtful approaches, to the issue of quality care in sexual and reproductive health. The series is based on the philosophy that women and their partners have a fundamental right to respectful treatment, information, choice, and follow-up from reproductive health care providers. This issue discusses improving women’s health and well being through a range of empowerment strategies in rural Peru.

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Managing Population-Environment Systems: Problems Of Institutional Design, Geoffrey Mcnicoll Jan 2000

Managing Population-Environment Systems: Problems Of Institutional Design, Geoffrey Mcnicoll

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

In population–environment systems human activity is inherently part of the system rather than something to be minimized in order to maintain or restore “natural” environmental conditions. Issues arising in managing such systems are discussed in this paper. The system’s boundaries must be identified, defining its human participants and its ecological content. Procedures for monitoring demographic and environmental change in the system must be set up and consensus must be reached on how to evaluate that change.

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Greater Investments In Children Through Women's Empowerment: A Key To Demographic Change In Pakistan?, Valerie L. Durrant, Zeba Sathar Jan 2000

Greater Investments In Children Through Women's Empowerment: A Key To Demographic Change In Pakistan?, Valerie L. Durrant, Zeba Sathar

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Women’s status has received considerable attention as a significant factor in demographic behavior and outcomes in South Asia however, little research has addressed the links between women’s status and their investments in children. In this paper, we empirically investigate how women’s status on multiple levels is associated with demographic outcomes. Using data from the Pakistan Status of Women and Fertility Survey in rural Punjab, we confirm that empowered women, or those with higher status, are better able to make positive investments in their children, thus increasing their children’s chances of survival during infancy and increasing their likelihood of ever attending …

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Adolescent Pregnancy And Parenthood In South Africa, Carol E. Kaufman, Thea De Wet, Jonathan Stadler Jan 2000

Adolescent Pregnancy And Parenthood In South Africa, Carol E. Kaufman, Thea De Wet, Jonathan Stadler

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

South Africa’s total fertility rate is estimated to be one of the lowest in sub-Saharan Africa, less than 3.0 births per woman nationally and declining. At the same time, adolescent childbearing levels remain high more than 30 percent of 19-year-old girls are reported to have given birth at least once. Using evidence from focus groups conducted in urban and rural areas in South Africa with young black women and men, and with the parents of teenage mothers, we consider the experience of early parenthood. Specifically, the analysis explores four aspects of teenage childbearing as it relates to key transitions into …

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Spatial Variation In Contraceptive Use In Bangladesh: Looking Beyond The Borders, Sajeda Amin, Alaka Malwade Basu, Rob Stephenson Jan 2000

Spatial Variation In Contraceptive Use In Bangladesh: Looking Beyond The Borders, Sajeda Amin, Alaka Malwade Basu, Rob Stephenson

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper tries to promote a more complete understanding of social change by analyzing spatial patterns of contraceptive use in Bangladesh and the contiguous state of West Bengal in India. The paper takes it’s cue from earlier analysis which found strong evidence of higher contraceptive prevalence in districts of Bangladesh that border Bengali speaking districts on India, as well as from analysis of fertility decline in historical Europe where language played a critical role. Using multilevel analysis to control for variations in individual and household level correlates, mapping districts that deviate considerably from their regional averages, the analysis highlights an …

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Schooling Opportunities For Girls As A Stimulus For Fertility Change In Rural Pakistan, Zeba Sathar, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Cem Mete, Minhaj Ul Haque Jan 2000

Schooling Opportunities For Girls As A Stimulus For Fertility Change In Rural Pakistan, Zeba Sathar, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Cem Mete, Minhaj Ul Haque

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper tests Caldwell’s mass schooling hypothesis in the context of rural Pakistan. His hypothesis was that the onset of the fertility transition is closely linked to the achievement of “mass formal schooling” of boys and girls. Punjab and Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) were selected for this study because they appear to be on the leading edge of the demographic transition-a transition that has only recently begun-as suggested by rapid recent increases in contraceptive practice. The study covered a range of rural villages or communities with very different socioeconomic and schooling conditions in order to examine the effects of both …

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Illinois V. Wardlow: The Supreme Court Dodges The Race Bullet In Fourth Amendment Terry Stops, Jonathan Bender Jan 2000

Illinois V. Wardlow: The Supreme Court Dodges The Race Bullet In Fourth Amendment Terry Stops, Jonathan Bender

Denver Law Review

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Student-On-Student Sexual Harassment: A Case Comment On The Supreme Court's Decision In Davis V. Monroe County Board Of Education, Carie Manke Jan 2000

Student-On-Student Sexual Harassment: A Case Comment On The Supreme Court's Decision In Davis V. Monroe County Board Of Education, Carie Manke

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Barriers To Successful Environmental And Natural Resources Litigation: Tenth Circuit Approaches To Standing And Agency Discretion, Andrew C. Lillie Jan 2000

Barriers To Successful Environmental And Natural Resources Litigation: Tenth Circuit Approaches To Standing And Agency Discretion, Andrew C. Lillie

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Vol. 78, No. 2: Full Issue, Denver University Law Review Jan 2000

Vol. 78, No. 2: Full Issue, Denver University Law Review

Denver Law Review

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