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Textiles : Function And Symbolism Within The Social And Ritual Systems Of Sumba, Eastern Indonesia, Jennifer A. Quincey

Honors Capstones

This thesis focuses on the place of textiles within the traditional social and ritual systems of Sumba, Eastern Indonesia; also considered is the cosmological significance of motifs depicted in these cloths as they relate to Sumbanese rituals. Textiles are cultural condensations in woven form. As such, they provide a window into the cosmologies of the people producing them. This research examines the social uses of Sumbanese textiles and also attempts to uncover dominant ritual symbols depicted therein through utilizing Turner’s analytical framework of symbolic analysis (1967:19-47). The rituals examined for this purpose are confined to marriage and funeral ceremonies. Aspects …

Ohio's Mahoning Valley Regional Metropatterns, Myron Orfield

Studies

Report

Hierarchical Data And The Derivational Relationship Between Words, Andrew R. Hippisley, Mariam Tariq, David Chang

Linguistics Faculty Publications

Databases that are currently being developed for repositories of digital linguistic information typically fall into the strictly relational category. We present work on an object-relational database which allows for the representation of hierarchical relationships. This has particular benefits for the storage and access of morphological data in the system of word formation. A model that makes use of inheritance hierarchies elegantly captures the relationship between a root, its derivative, and its derivative, and so on. We report on the experimental Node DataBlade, a software bundle that extends the functionality of the object-relational database system Informix (Brown 2001) by supporting the …

Theory And Research In Social Education, Volume 29, No. 2, Spring 2001, E. Wayne Ross

Theory and Research in Social Education

No abstract provided.

Expert Witnesses, Kimberly M. Miles

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.

Will The World Survive: Latino/A Pop Music In The Cultural Mainstream, Steven W. Bender

Denver Law Review

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Injustice And The Normative Nature Of Meaning, C. Edwin Baker

Maryland Law Review

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Judging By Appearances: Professional Ethics, Expressive Government, And The Moral Significance Of How Things Seem, Deborah Hellman

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Measured Endorsement, Shari Seidman Diamond, Andrew Koppelman

Maryland Law Review

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Polling Establishment: Judicial Review, Democracy, And The Endorsement Theory Of The Establishment Clause - Commentary On Measured Endorsement, Jamin B. Raskin

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Eastern Michigan University Graduate Catalog, 2001 - 2003, Office Of The Registrar

Graduate Catalogs

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Focus Emu, March 20, 2001, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Focus Emu, April 17, 2001, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Telling Wonders: Ethnographic And Political Discourse In The Work Of Herodotus, Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Classics Faculty Works

Herodotus, the worldwide ethnographer and historian of the Persian Wars, provides a striking demonstration of how the account of past events of national history and the description of foreign peoples participate in the rhetoric of shaping attitudes about the present. Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus studies the narrative of the Histories in order to uncover the political message communicated to a Greek audience of the fifth century B.C.

Self-Determination And The American Indian: A Case Study, Milo Colton

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

The United States has repeatedly victimized indigenous populations by stripping away tribal sovereignty and self-determination. One such example is Indian tribal reservations historical absence of jurisdictional autonomy. Prior to 1953, Indian tribal reservations shared jurisdiction with the federal government, allowing some semblance of autonomy. However, passage of Congress’s Public Law 280 erased this form of self-determination. This law enabled states to assume all civil and criminal jurisdiction over Indian tribal reservations. More recently, however, reservations have slowly begun to regain jurisdictional autonomy through the process of retrocession: the act of returning something taken. The achievements of the Winnebago Tribe of …

The Use Of Asl In Teaching Reading And Writing: Classroom Issues And Strategies, Pamela Conley

Presentations and other scholarship

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Legal Culture And The Practice: Postmodern Depiction Of The Rule Of Law, Jeffrey E. Thomas

Faculty Works

Professor Thomas suggests that the television series the practice breaks from tradition by portraying the law as arbitrary and subject to manipulation. On one hand, its narratives show that law may require the guilty to be set free. On the other hand, the law sometimes fails to protect the innocent. Outcomes often turn on extralegal factors such as luck, race, or heroic efforts. This portrayal is a "postmodern" depiction of the rule of law. The narratives from the practice deconstruct the traditional rule of law hierarchy by showing that the rule of man can lead to more just results. The …

Diminished Capacity - Expanded Discretion: Section 5k2.13 Of The Federal Sentencing Guidelines And The Demise Of The Non-Violent Offense, Robert R. Miller

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Latent Maximum Entropy Principle For Statistical Language Modeling, Shaojun Wang, Ronald Rosenfeld, Yunxin Zhao

Kno.e.sis Publications

We describe a unified probabilistic framework for statistical language modeling, the latent maximum entropy principle. The salient feature of this approach is that the hidden causal hierarchical dependency structure can be encoded into the statistical model in a principled way by mixtures of exponential families with a rich expressive power. We first show the problem formulation, solution, and certain convergence properties. We then describe how to use this machine learning technique to model various aspects of natural language, such as syntactic structure of sentences, semantic information in a document. Finally, we draw a conclusion and point out future research directions.

A Linguistic And Anthropological Survey Of The Tibetan Borderland, Krisadawan Hongladarom

Asian Review

This paper reports the linguistic and anthropological situation of an important but poorly documented region of Tibet, namely the cultural province of Kham. Characterized by "four rivers and six ranges, " the region n a historical frontier zone between Tibet proper and western provinces of China n has been a meeting place between the Tibetans and the Han Chinese and a common home for these peoples as well as other ethnic minorities. As an introduction to the ethnic and linguistic complexity of Kham, the paper pays a special attention to Gyalthang (Zhongdian), which is located on the southernmost tip of …

Heidegger Circle Conference 2001 - Proceedings, Babette Babich

Research Resources

Heidegger on Science and Technology. Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the North American Heidegger Conference at Fordham University: May, 2001. Convenor: Babette Babich

Iowa Academy Of Science Membership Directory, 2001-2002, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contents:

Editorial Board, Journal ... 5
Committees ... 6
Sections ... 14
ISTS Regional Directors ... 18
Awards of Merit ... 20
Excellence in Science Teaching Awards ... 21
Past Presidents ... 22
Membership Roster ... 23
Institutional Members ... 23
Corporate Sponsors ... 60

Simplixity And Complexity: The Topology Of The Short Story And The Novel, Juani Guerra

Short Story

No abstract provided.

The Jury In The Twenty-First Century: An Interdisciplinary Conference--Introduction, Susan Herman, Lawrence Solan

Faculty Scholarship

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The Effects Of The Amendments To The Baggage Check Provision Of The Warsaw Convention - Clearing The Way For More Efficient Check-In Procedures, Gillian Flener

Transportation Law Journal

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Information Skills Course (Gxex1401): A Survey Of Its Effectiveness As Perceived By Students, Sai Noi Chan, Zaharah Ramly

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

The Information Skills Programme was formally introduced as a compulsory one-credit university course to all first year students pursuing an undergraduate degree in the University of Malaya in the 1998/1999 academic session. The objective of the Course is to equip students with basic information skills and techniques that will equip them for life-long learning. This report presents the views of some 1000 students on the usefulness of the topics taught in the Course in relation to searching information in the Library and to their learning as well as their assignments. The findings from the survey indicate that students in the …

Catalog Graduate School, University Of New Hampshire, 2001-2003, University Of New Hampshire

Graduate Catalog

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The Unauthorized Protection Of Language Under Title Vi, Mona T. Peterson

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Is A Foreign State A "Person"? Does It Matter?: Personal Jurisdiction, Due Process, And The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 34 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 115 (2001), Karen H. Cross

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Literacy And The Deaf Individual : What Are We Going To Do About It?, Tonya Seger

Honors Capstones

Do you find it acceptable for students to graduate high school with a third grade literacy level? Of course not! Unfortunately, the average deaf and hard of hearing student graduates with little more than the literacy skills of a nine-year old. Although this fact is well known, not much is happening to change it. This paper covers the following topics: history of deaf education, definition of literacy, why literacy is important, Deaf Culture", literacy in the workplace, why literacy levels are so low, and what we can do about it? Research indicates that literacy levels of deaf and hard of …