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The Dislocated Textile Worker In Rural Alabama: A Portrait, Sharon G. Lankford-Rice

The Qualitative Report

This is a study that delves into the attitudes of the rural Alabama textile worker at the point of being laid off. The methodology and findings are discussed and a personal interview transcribed from a former dislocated worker concerning her feelings, attitudes, and aspirations on how the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program has impacted her life and career.

Exploration Of The Efficacy Of Class-Based Approaches To Racial Justice: The Cuban Context, An Latcrit Iv Symposium - Rotating Centers, Epanding Frontiers: Theory And Marginal Intersections- Forging Our Identity: Transformative Resistance In The Areas Of Work, Class, And The Law, Tanya K. Hernandez

Faculty Scholarship

The growing discord over the continuing use of race-conscious social justice programs in the United States has given rise to the consideration of replacing them with color-blind class-based affirmative action programs. Although there are a number of theoretical investigations into the proposal for class-based affirmative action, the discourse is short on practical assessments. This Article amplifies the class-based affirmative action debate by drawing lessons from Socialist Cuba's socioeconomic redistribution measures. Inasmuch as Socialist Cuba attempts to diminish racial disparities with the use of colorblind socioeconomic redistribution programs one can classify their strategy as a class-focused rather than a race-focused attack …

Adieu To Electrocution, Deborah W. Denno

Faculty Scholarship

This Article contends that there is no moral or legal reason to retain electrocution, particularly because other execution methods are available. It is clear that at some point soon, electrocution will no longer exist in this country and, as a result, throughout the world. By eliminating this perplexing vestige, the other problems with the death penalty may appear all that more offensive.

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Iowa Journal of Communication

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Cyberviews: Internet Interviewing, Jo Kirch

Iowa Journal of Communication

E-mail interviews (cyberviews) were used to discern information about incest survivors. The Internet research process used for data collection is discussed in this article, including the benefits of Internet research, the method of initial contact, e-mail interviewing (cyberviewing), the development of the cyberview schedule, advantages of cyberviewing, problems encountered, and suggested solutions. Characteristics of the sample are also presented.

Legal Representation For Children In Protection Proceedings: Two Distinct Lawyer Roles Are Required, Donald N. Duquette

Articles

The thesis of this article is that it is a mistake to try to develop a single lawyer role for children in protection cases which tries to accommodate their developing capacities from infants to articulate teens. Sometimes a child needs a traditional attorney; sometimes a best interests advocate. We should adopt different standards for the different lawyer roles. Trying to define a single lawyer role for children of all ages and all capacities is an impossible task. This article argues that we should resolve the ambivalence not by adopting a client-directed or a best interests approach, but by having two …

Supporting Survivors Of Sexual Assault: A Feminist Perspective, Geeta Cowlagi

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Sexual assault continues to be a serious problem in the United States and in Utah; one that exacts a heavy toll on the survivors as well as society in general. While the issue is an old one, there is still considerable debate around it. Indeed, the myths, misperceptions, and ignorance about the causes and effects of rape and sexual assault impede the recovery process for the survivors of sexual assault. The goal of this thesis is to support survivors of sexual assault in their recovery. The core of the thesis is a manual written for professionals who work with survivors …

An Investigation Of Student Understanding Of Light In Geometrical Optics: Relating Formalism To Conceptual Understanding Of The Physical Phenomena, Ekaterina Denissova

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This paper reports on a study of student understanding of the nature and properties of light prior to instruction and by the completion of a unit on geometrical optics in a General Physics II course at University of Northern Iowa. The emphasis of this study was placed on the ability to make connections between the formalism of physics and real world phenomena. The ability to apply appropriate concepts and principles from geometrical optics, including the drawing of ray diagrams, to predict and explain image formation and light behavior was chosen as the operational criterion to assess students' conceptual understanding. The …

Inner Presence, Amy L. Bailey

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

What we believe constructs the person we are and will become, the ways and means we conduct our lives and form our sense of right and wrong at all levels inward and outward: politically, socially, and personally. My own beliefs, founded on my faith in God, have directed me in my work. This thesis exhibition is an exploration of how to express these beliefs visually. During my exploration, I had to alter and develop my own visual iconography to express my ideas of God. Conventional transcendent icons including the cross, the 1 Christ figure, and the Virgin Mary, have been …

Debating The Field Civil Code 105 Years Late, Andrew P. Morriss, Scott J. Burnham, James C. Nelson

Faculty Scholarship

In 1895, Montana adopted a version of the Field Civil Code--a massive law originally drafted by New York lawyer David Dudley Field in the early 1860s. The Civil Code (and its companion Political, Penal, and Procedural Codes) were adopted without debate, without legislative scrutiny, and without Montanans having an opportunity to grasp the enormity of the changes the Codes brought to the Montana legal system. In sponsoring this debate over whether to repeal the Civil Code, the Montana Law Review is finally giving Montana the opportunity to examine the merits of the Civil Code that she was denied 105 years …

Decius S. Wade's Necessity For Codification, Andrew P. Morriss

Faculty Scholarship

Decius S. Wade, former Montana Territorial Supreme Court Justice and Code Commissioner, delivered this address to the Helena Bar Association on April 5, 1894. The address came slightly more than two years after Wade, as one of the three Code Commissioners, had reported draft Civil, Political, Penal, and Procedural Codes to the State Auditor and slightly less than one year before Governor John E. Rickards signed the four codes as passed by the Fourth Legislature. Wade's address came just after the Third Legislature, split three ways among the Democrats, Republicans, and Populists and unable to settle on United States Senators, …

Explaining Market Mechanisms, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

In recent years, environmental regulation has seen a debate between supporters of traditional command-and-control regulation – a system of uniform pollution control standards – and proponents of a system of fees or permits for individual polluters known as market mechanisms. In this article, Professor Merrill considers two theories, wealth-maximization theory and distributional theory, that have been used to explain the emergence of market mechanisms in American environmental policy. He notes that (1) relatively few American environmental-enforcement programs have adopted market mechanisms; (2) those that exist overwhelmingly use grandfathered transferable permits instead of pollution taxes or auctioned permits; and (3) they …

Death Is The Whole Ball Game, Jeffrey A. Fagan, James S. Liebman, Valerie West

Faculty Scholarship

In Capital Appeals Revisited and The Meaning of Capital Appeals, Barry Latzer and James N.G. Cauthen argue that a study of capital appeals should focus only on overturned findings of guilt, and complain that in A Broken System we examine all overturned capital verdicts. But the question they want studied cannot provide an accurate evaluation of a system of capital punishment. By proposing to count only "conviction" error and not "sentence" error, Latzer and Cauthen ignore that if a death sentence is overturned, the case is no longer capital and the system of capital punishment has failed to achieve its …

How Persuasive Is Natural Law Theory?, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

This Article, in honor of John Finnis, evaluates the persuasiveness of one central element of natural law theory – its claim to an objective moral truth discoverable by reason. Although I stand outside the tradition, my interest in natural law theory goes back to my college days. John Finnis, especially in his work Natural Law and Natural Rights, has much enriched my understanding of moral, political, and legal philosophy. Prior to that book, natural lawyers and analytic jurists had little to say to each other; by and large, the members of each group had scant respect for the scholarly endeavors …

Are Mental States Relevant For Statutory And Constitutional Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

Judges in the United States must interpret statutes and constitutions. Largely because these texts are framed in the English language, a language shared by legislators, judges, and other citizens, judges employ sufficiently common techniques to sustain a coherent practice. Lawyers can often say with some confidence how judges will construe particular legal provisions, and, when they have serious doubts, they can sketch the likely alternatives. But we are now in an era of sharp theoretical disagreement over what judges do when they interpret authoritative texts.

In difficult cases of statutory interpretation, are judges mainly trying to give language its ordinary …

Death Matters – A Reply To Latzer And Cauthen, James S. Liebman, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Valerie West

Faculty Scholarship

The legal treatment of capital punishment in the United States "rests squarely on the predicate that the penalty of death is qualitatively different from a sentence of imprisonment, however long. Death, in its finality, differs more from life imprisonment than a 100-year prison term differs from one of only a year or two. This predicate is among "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society" and determine whether a punishment is "cruel and unusual" in violation of the Constitution. Because "'[f]rom the point of view of the defendant, [death] is different in both its severity …

Patterns Of Legal Change: Shareholder And Creditor Rights In Transition Economies, Katharina Pistor

Faculty Scholarship

This paper analyses changes in the legal protection of shareholder and creditor rights in 24 transition economies from 1990 to 1998. It documents differences in the initial conditions and a tendency towards convergence of formal legal rules as the result of extensive legal reforms. Convergence seems to be primarily the result of foreign technical assistance programs as well as of harmonisation requirements for countries wishing to join the European Union. The external supply of legal rules not withstanding, the pattern of legal reforms suggests that law reform has been primarily responsive, or lagging, rather than leading economic development. In comparison, …

Avoiding Common Problems In Using Teaching Assistants: Hard Lessons Learned From Peer Teaching Theory And Experience, Edward R. Becker, Rachel Croskery-Roberts

Articles

A majority of American law schools rely on teaching assistants to help administer first-year legal writing, research, and analysis (LWRA) courses. Specifically, surveys jointly conducted by the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) and the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) consistently detail the extensive use many LWRA professors make of teaching assistants. Likewise, Julie Cheslik recognized in her article about her 1994 survey on the use of TAs in the typical LWRA course that "[o]ne of the most prevalent uses of peer teachers in the law school setting is the employment of upper-level law students as teaching assistants in the first-year …

In Re Silicon Graphics Inc.: Shareholder Wealth Effects Resulting From The Interpretation Of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's Pleading Standard, Marilyn F. Johnson, Karen K. Nelson, Adam C. Pritchard

Articles

This Article presents an empirical study of changes in shareholder wealth resulting from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in In re Silicon Graphics Inc. Securities Litigation, which interpreted the pleading provision established in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Reform Act"). Congress passed the Reform Act as part of an ongoing effort to protect corporations from abusive suits alleging "fraud by hindsight." In such suits, plaintiffs claimed that a sudden drop in a company's stock price was evidence that the issuer and its management covered up the bad news that led to the price drop. …

Rpos Gene Function Is A Disadvantage For Escherichia Coli Bj4 During Competitive Colonization Of The Mouse Large Intestine, Karen A. Krogfelt, Marianne Hjulgaard, Kristine Sørensen, Paul S. Cohen, Michael Givskov

Past Departments Faculty Publications (CELS)

The ability of Escherichia coli to survive stress during growth in different environments is, in large part, dependent onrpoS and the genes that comprise the rpoSregulon. E. coli BJ4 and an isogenic BJ4 rpoSmutant were used to examine the influence of the rpoS gene on E. coli colonization of the streptomycin-treated mouse large intestine. Colonization experiments in which the wild-typeE. coli BJ4 and its rpoS mutant were fed individually as well as simultaneously to mice suggested that E. coli BJ4 does not face prolonged periods of nutrient starvation in the mouse large intestine and that the …

Three-Dimensional Kinematics And Wake Structure Of The Pectoral Fins During Locomotion In Leopard Sharks Triakis Semifasciata, C. D. Wilga, George V. Lauder

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The classical theory of locomotion in sharks proposes that shark pectoral fins are oriented to generate lift forces that balance the moment produced by the oscillating heterocercal tail. Accordingly, previous studies of shark locomotion have used fixed-wing aircraft as a model assuming that sharks have similar stability and control mechanisms. However, unlike airplanes, sharks are propelled by undulations of the body and tail and have considerable control of pectoral fin motion. In this paper, we use a new approach to examine the function of the pectoral fins of leopard sharks, Triakis semifasciata, during steady horizontal swimming at speeds of …

Death Anxiety In Young Adults: The Predictive Role Of Gender And Psychological Seperation From Parents, Kimberly Dehate Chelgren

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the predictive role of gender and psychological separation in the death anxiety of young adults. A total death anxiety score and eight psychological dependency scores, four for mom and four for dad, were obtained from male and female participants between the ages of 17 and 26 years old. Females were found to have significantly higher total death anxiety than were males. Females also had significantly higher emotional dependency on mom than did males. Regression analysis revealed that gender and emotional dependency on mom account for 14% of the variance in total death anxiety. Additional results with males …

Individual Differences In Cognitive Performance Relating To Non-Pathological Sleep Parameters In The Presence Of A Stressor, Theresa Marie Lagman

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Non-pathological sleep parameters in relation to cognition among individuals who do not qualify as having sleep disorders or who are not subjected to extended periods of total sleep deprivation have not been adequately investigated in previous studies. The current study investigates the influence of circadian typology (morning-type vs. evening-type individuals), time of session (AM vs. PM), habitual sleep practices (sleep hygiene), sleep quality, life stress, and the presence of an acute stressor on sustained attention, memory, and mental rotation performance. Several main effects emerged for individual variables above; however, the data failed to reveal significant interactions among these variables. The …

Investigation Of The Job Training Partnership Act Career Inventory In Predicting Career Clusters For Clients In Black Hawk County, Amy Bryte

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) is a federally funded program that is an approach to employee training and placement to the economically disadvantaged, dislocated workers, or those facing significant employment barriers. The goal of ITP A is to put People to work by placing them in jobs through various training activities. Overall the ITP A program strives to move jobless individuals into permanent self-sustaining employment. A service offered through the ITPA program is career inventory. Career inventory are assessment tools used to determine a client's current abilities, values, and interests. After a client completes the career inventory they are …

The Incident Dispatching And Tracking System, Thomas J. Braden

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Incident Dispatching and Tracking System (IDTS) was developed to facilitate the technical support of an organization. IDTS provides a means by which a user may submit their issue/problem to the system and receive a unique trouble ticket number. This number can then be used to view the status of that record, minimizing the need for inquiries to the technical support team. IDTS also provides a dispatching function that assigns each trouble ticket to a technician that specializes in that type of issue. Finally, there is a reporting function that allows the technical support team to view the current technical …

The Effect Of Color On A Controlled Accuracy Test, Kaori Araki

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Human behavior is influenced by the environment and color is one ever present factor in the environment. Consequently, the impact of color on performance cannot be ignored. Previous research on the effect of color on a fine motor skill has not been systematic and results are inconclusive. The purpose of the present study, then, was to examine the effect of color (green, blue, red, and white) on the performance of a controlled target accuracy task (dart throwing). Based on previous literature, it was hypothesized that color would have an effect on performance. The experiment took place in the Psychomotor Behavior …

กระจกเงาสะท้อนภาพภาษาไทยโบราณ (A Reflection Of Ancient Thai), ธีระพันธ์ ล. ทองคำ

Journal of Letters

เสียงในภาษาไทดั้งเดิมซึ่งสืบสร้างโดยฟัง กวย ลี หลายเสียง ไม่ปรากฏในภาษาไทย และภาษาไทถิ่นที่พูดในปัจจุบัน แต่เสียงเหล่านี้ อาทิ *?b *?d *?j *J *g ฯลฯ ยังปรากฏ ในภาษาตระกูล มอญ-เขมร สาขาบัฮนาริก และกะตูอีกที่พูดในแขวงเซกอง ลาวใต้ โดย เฉพาะอย่างยิ่ง ในคําที่ภาษาตระกูลไทอาจยืมจากภาษาตระกูลมอญ-เขมร หรือภาษาตระกูล มอญ-เขมรอาจยืมจากภาษาตระกูลไท ส่วนการสร้างคําใหม่ด้วยวิธีผสานคําเป็นลักษณะเก่า แก่ดั้งเดิมในภาษาตระกูลมอญ-เขมร เพราะสามารถสืบสร้างหน่วยเติมหน้าศัพท์และหน่วย เติมกลางศัพท์ได้ อาทิ การเติมหน่วยกลางศัพท์ * - arn - เพื่อทำให้เป็นคำนาม การเติมหน่วย กลางศัพท์ *-ai- เพื่อทำให้เป็นคำกริยา การเติมหน่วยหน้าศัพท์ "CaN- เพื่อทำให้เป็นคำ กริยาการีต และการเติมหน่วยหน้าศัพท์ *Car เพื่อทำให้เป็นคำกริยาแสดงการกระทําร่วม กันหรือตอบโต้กันในภาษากะตูอีกดั้งเดิม เป็นต้น

การใช้คำเรียกและความเปรียบเกี่ยวกับกษัตริย์ ใน "ยวนพ่ายโคลงดั้น" (The Terms Of Reverence And Metaphors For The King In "Yuan-Pai Klong-Dun"), อัควิทย์ เรืองรอง

Journal of Letters

การใช้คำเรียกและความเปรียบเกี่ยวกับกษัตริย์ใน "ยวนพ่ายโคลงดั้น" ชี้ชัดว่ากวีใช้ เพื่อช่วยสื่อและเน้นย้ำ "สาร" ด้านเชิดชูสดุดีบุญบารมีและพระคุณสมบัติของกษัตริย์ได้แจ่ม ชัดและเข้มข้น ทั้งยังสะท้อนแง่คิดอันสัมพันธ์กับบริบททางสังคมสมัยอยุธยาตอนต้นอีกด้วย

แบ่งฮีตกินควาย : ประเพณีกับชีวิต (Buffalo Scrifice: Community Rites In Southern Laos), สุวรรณา เกรียงไกรเพ็ชร์

Journal of Letters

กรณีศึกษาพิธีกรรมฆ่าควายเลี้ยงผีในระบบความเชื่อของชนเผ่าและความสัมพันธ์ ระหว่างพิธีกรรมกับชีวิตของชนเผ่าในเซกอง รวมทั้งศึกษาความเปลี่ยนแปลงที่เกิดจากสภาพ แวดล้อมทางเศรษฐกิจและสังคม ที่ทำให้ชนเผ่าเหล่านี้ต้องปรับทั้งความเชื่อและการดำเนินชีวิตของตนให้สอดคล้องกับความเป็นจริงในปัจจุบัน

ปราสาทของบารอนฮุนแดร์ - เตน-ทรองค์ใน ก็องดิดด์ ของวอลแตร์ (The Castle Of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh In Voltaire's "Candide"), ปณิธิ หุ่นแสวง

Journal of Letters

หนังสือ ก็องดิดด์ ของวอลแตร์ มีลักษณะหลายประการที่พ้องกับการเล่าเรื่องแบบนิทาน แต่เมื่อพิจารณากลวิธีโดยละเอียดแล้ว จะพบว่าผู้เล่าเรื่องปรากฏตัวอยู่ตลอดเวลาเพื่อพาผู้อ่าน จากโลกของนิทานไปสู่ความคิดเชิงปรัชญา ปราสาทของบารอนขุนแดร์-เตน-ทรองค์อันเป็น สถานที่ซึ่งผู้เล่าใช้เปิดเรื่องเช่นเดียวกับในเทพนิยายหลายๆ เรื่อง ที่จริงคือมายาที่ห่อหุ้ม ความคิด สุทรรศนนิยม ตลอดจน ยศ อำนาจ ศักดิ์ศรี ฐานันดรและความสุขของชนชั้นสูง เมื่อปราสาท พินาศลงเหลือเพียงกองหิน สิ่งต่าง ๆ เหล่านั้นก็มิอาจตั้งอยู่ได้ สมาชิกของปราสาทแห่งนั้นพากัน พบกับความวิบัติ คุณค่าและสิทธิ์ของมนุษย์อันติดมากับชาติกำเนิดล้วนเสื่อมสูญ เปิดทางให้กับเงินซึ่งเป็นอำนาจอย่างใหม่อันเปลี่ยนมือได้ แต่เงินที่จะอำนวยสุขให้แก่ผู้ครอบครองต้องเป็นเงินที่ได้มาจากการทำงาน ซึ่งสามารถขจัดสิ่งเลวร้ายในชีวิตอันได้แก่ความเบื่อ ความชั่ว และความจำเป็น