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Ethnography And The Idealized Accounts Of Science In Law, David S. Caudill Jan 2002

Ethnography And The Idealized Accounts Of Science In Law, David S. Caudill

San Diego Law Review

n Part I, I confirm the idealizations of science in law and their implications for legal scholarship and practice. In Part II, I describe the ethnographic method used by science studies scholars, with reference to my own ethnographic analysis of interviews with three neuroscientists. I conclude Part II by identifying various social aspects of science that comprise a complex picture of scientific activity. In Part ill, I discuss the implications of ethnomethodology for trial practice, including deposition analysis, Daubert-type hearings, cross-examination techniques, and drafting jury instructions. Part IV addresses anticipated criticisms of my arguments.

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Latin American-United States Security Relations And The Power Asymmetry Divide, Matthew R. Slater Jan 2002

Latin American-United States Security Relations And The Power Asymmetry Divide, Matthew R. Slater

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

Security relations between Latin American and the United States are generally well explained by hegemonic stability theory. Succinctly stated, hegemonic stability theory explains that in systems with a hegemonic power there is a greater likelihood of security cooperation. This is because a hegemon provides public goods, such as a stable currency or security from outside interference, and in turn, the less powerful states acknowledge the leadership of the dominant state. When compared to other regions it is readily apparent that the U.S. and Latin America do not have major security issues on the level of East Asia, the Middle East, …

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The Children Overboard Event: Constructing The Family And Nation Through Representations Of The Other, Kate Slattery Jan 2002

The Children Overboard Event: Constructing The Family And Nation Through Representations Of The Other, Kate Slattery

Theses : Honours

This thesis presents a selection of representations of the Children Overboard event of October 7, 2001, sourced from the Australian government and print news media. Employing an interpretative and critical discourse approach, I explore how the event could be seen to define the physical and cultural boundaries of the Australian nation. In particular I explore how a threat to nation is articulated. From my analysis of the representations, I identify a rhetoric of the 'Other' set within the discursive spaces of family and nation. These discourses circulated within the Children Overboard event are pursued in this thesis in terms of …

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Suggestions Regarding Cross-Cultural Environment As Context For Aging And Human Development In Non-Western Cultures, Frank E. Eyetsemitan Jan 2002

Suggestions Regarding Cross-Cultural Environment As Context For Aging And Human Development In Non-Western Cultures, Frank E. Eyetsemitan

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

An individual's aging and human development always occur within a particular cultural context, but given the dominance of Western culture, the environment of non-Western societies is cross-cultural - it includes not only a non-Western dimension, but also Global and Western dimensions. The Western dimension is made up of those characteristics associated with Western societies, which are now found in non-Western societies, for example, Western education, healthcare services, and industrialization. The non-Western dimension, on the other hand, is made up of those attributes that are indigenous to the people, e.g., traditional healing. The Global dimension is characterized by standards that all …

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"Introduction" To The Shape Of Change: Essays In Early Modern Literature And La Fontaine In Honor Of David Lee Rubin, Anne L. Birberick, Russell J. Ganim Jan 2002

"Introduction" To The Shape Of Change: Essays In Early Modern Literature And La Fontaine In Honor Of David Lee Rubin, Anne L. Birberick, Russell J. Ganim

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications

Since Michel Foucault’s The Archeology of Knowledge gained widespread critical recognition in the late 1960s, the concept of change has held a privileged position in the discourse of literary and cultural studies. Concerned with disruptions, transformations, and upheavals, scholars have focused on those moments of rupture when the present breaks with the past, when originality displaces convention, when inventio repudiates imitatio. This emphasis on aesthetic and epistemic shifts has all too often resulted in the neglect of more traditional issues having to do with problems of cultural development, evolution, and influence. It has also overlooked the idea of reading and …

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“Married Widowhood”: Maintaining Couplehood When One Spouse Is Living In A Nursing Home, Dawn O. Braithwaite Jan 2002

“Married Widowhood”: Maintaining Couplehood When One Spouse Is Living In A Nursing Home, Dawn O. Braithwaite

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

When a marital partner moves to a nursing home, how do community-dwelling spouses, labeled “married widows,” adapt and cope with changes in the relationship and their own marital roles? The first goal of this study was to explore the role additions and deletions for community-based wives whose husbands moved to a nursing home. The second goal was to examine how these women discursively represent their own self-identity and the relationship they have with their husband who is living in a nursing home. Data were drawn from in-depth, face-to-face interviews with 21 wives whose husbands resided in a nursing home. A …

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The "Minor" Author And The Major Editor: A Case Study In Determining The Canon, Christopher Andrew Healy Jan 2002

The "Minor" Author And The Major Editor: A Case Study In Determining The Canon, Christopher Andrew Healy

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation explores the relationship between a literary work and its printed edition in the production of reputation--the editor as gatekeeper of the reputation of a “minor” poet. That relationship is demonstrated through a case study on the effects of the nineteenth-century edition of the works of the fifteenth-century poet Thomas Hoccleve and an analysis of the lingering effects of the Foucauldian “editor-function.” The number of surviving manuscripts indicates that Hoccleve’s work was well-regarded during the early fifteenth century, but his reputation fell with that of other non-Chaucerian medieval poets as later critics lost linguistic familiarity with Middle English. The …

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Self-Disclosure (Book Chapter), Clara E. Hill, Sarah Knox Jan 2002

Self-Disclosure (Book Chapter), Clara E. Hill, Sarah Knox

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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Aspects Of Cognition In Human Mate Selection, Michael J. Stasio Jan 2002

Aspects Of Cognition In Human Mate Selection, Michael J. Stasio

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Evolutionary perspectives on human mating have provided testable hypotheses regarding what qualities people desire in their mates and why they want them. One study was conducted to replicate previous findings in mate preference using a more sophisticated paired comparison methodology to develop scales. Paired comparison scaling generally replicated gender differences in mate preferences consistent with evolutionary predictions. Further, decision-making reaction time (ms) suggested the presence of an underlying psychological continuum of selection criteria. A series of studies were then conducted applying the information processing approach (IPA) to investigate attention and knowledge organization in mate preference. The dot-probe paradigm was used …

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Women High School Principals: Perspectives On Role Conflict, Role Commitment, And Job Satisfaction, Ellen Eckman Jan 2002

Women High School Principals: Perspectives On Role Conflict, Role Commitment, And Job Satisfaction, Ellen Eckman

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

This study is an investigation of women high school principals in terms of the challenges they face, role conflicts they experience, their role commitment, and their job satisfaction. The purpose is to describe women high school principals addressing the issue of the continued underrepresentation of women in the high school principalship. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from women high school principals in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The findings indicate that role conflict impacts career decisions—respondents delayed entering the high school principalship until the demands of raising their children had lessened. Role conflict is inversely related to job satisfaction; the …

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Phosphorus Dynamics In Cultures And Natural Populations Of Trichodesmium Spp, Margaret R. Mulholland, Sheri Floge, Edward J. Carpenter, Douglas G. Capone Jan 2002

Phosphorus Dynamics In Cultures And Natural Populations Of Trichodesmium Spp, Margaret R. Mulholland, Sheri Floge, Edward J. Carpenter, Douglas G. Capone

OES Faculty Publications

Trichodesmium spp. fix atmospheric N2 and so an element other than N limits production by these species in the oligotrophic ocean. Because dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP) is in short supply in many marine systems, it has been hypothesized that P is a growth-limiting nutrient for these species in nature. However, Trichodesmium is capable of hydrolyzing dissolved organic P (DOP) compounds and the inorganic products from hydrolysis may provide an additional source of P for growth. We investigated P dynamics and alkaline phosphatase activity in cultures and natural populations of Trichodesmium from the Atlantic Ocean and the north coast of …

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Apoptosis In The Ames Dwarf Mouse : Studies Of Basal Apoptotic Protein Levels And In Vitro Apoptosis Induction, Melissa A. Kennedy Jan 2002

Apoptosis In The Ames Dwarf Mouse : Studies Of Basal Apoptotic Protein Levels And In Vitro Apoptosis Induction, Melissa A. Kennedy

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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A Comment On Race And The Law, Zanita E. Fenton Jan 2002

A Comment On Race And The Law, Zanita E. Fenton

Articles

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The International And Comparative Criminal Trial Project, Mark Findlay Jan 2002

The International And Comparative Criminal Trial Project, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The International Criminal Trial Project (ICTP) has been in operation within the Centre for Legal Research (CLR), Nottingham Law school since January 2000. To date the project has succeeded in establishing a global network of scholars researching international and comparative criminal justice. The ICTP examines and compares trial processes and practice in a variety of local, regional and global contexts. The research incorporates particular evaluations of issues and relationships essential to the operation of trial process in different jurisdictions and stages of development. From the focus on the trial the project is producing knowledge about international and comparative criminal justice. …

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As Long As Water Falls| An Ethnohistorical Study In The Socioeconomic Underdevelopment And Cultural Identity Of The Confederated Salish And Kootenai Tribes| Using The Events Leading Up To And Surrounding The Construction And Future Control Of The Kerr Dam, William F. Arnold Jan 2002

As Long As Water Falls| An Ethnohistorical Study In The Socioeconomic Underdevelopment And Cultural Identity Of The Confederated Salish And Kootenai Tribes| Using The Events Leading Up To And Surrounding The Construction And Future Control Of The Kerr Dam, William F. Arnold

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

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Identifying And Comparing Misconceptions Held By American And Russian University Students In Mechanics, Alexandra Sokolova Jan 2002

Identifying And Comparing Misconceptions Held By American And Russian University Students In Mechanics, Alexandra Sokolova

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This paper reports on a study of misconceptions held by undergraduate students completing an introductory physics course at the University of Northern Iowa and first-year undergraduate students taking a mechanics course at the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. Existence of misconceptions in mechanics among Russian and American students was investigated prior to instruction and at the completion of the one-semester course. Different teaching approaches were used to introduce the students to mechanics. An activity-based approach was emphasized at UNI and a traditional lecture-lab approach was used at Herzen University. The emphasis of the study was placed on identifying misconceptions …

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Personnage Feminin Dans Les Romans D'Echenoz, Pennac Et Darrieussecq, Hassiba Maidi-Boualamallah Jan 2002

Personnage Feminin Dans Les Romans D'Echenoz, Pennac Et Darrieussecq, Hassiba Maidi-Boualamallah

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

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Inattentive And Impulsive Profiles Of The Cpt -Ii And Their Relationship With Dsm -Iv Adhd Subtypes, Kristin A. Kirlin Jan 2002

Inattentive And Impulsive Profiles Of The Cpt -Ii And Their Relationship With Dsm -Iv Adhd Subtypes, Kristin A. Kirlin

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

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Acculturative Stress Experienced By International Students At The University Of Northern Iowa And Their Coping Options, Mmamiki Gaolatlhe Kamanakao Jan 2002

Acculturative Stress Experienced By International Students At The University Of Northern Iowa And Their Coping Options, Mmamiki Gaolatlhe Kamanakao

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The primary purpose of this study was to examine the acculturative stressors of international students at the University of Northern Iowa and determine what services or programs they access or use as their coping options. Also included in the study was a description of differences in the extracted factors of acculturative stress by gender, age, marital status, residence type, place of origin, length of study at UN[, length of stay in the US, and number of working hours per week. A random sample of 98 international students (45% female, and 54% male) responded to a 50-item acculturative stress and coping …

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Maternal Psychological Control And Preschool Children’S Behavioral Outcomes In China, Russia, And The United States, Susanne Frost Olsen, Chongming Yang, Craig H. Hart, Clyde C. Robinson, Peixia Wu, David A. Nelson, Larry J. Nelson, Shenghua Jin, Jianzhong Wo Jan 2002

Maternal Psychological Control And Preschool Children’S Behavioral Outcomes In China, Russia, And The United States, Susanne Frost Olsen, Chongming Yang, Craig H. Hart, Clyde C. Robinson, Peixia Wu, David A. Nelson, Larry J. Nelson, Shenghua Jin, Jianzhong Wo

Faculty Publications

A growing body of Western literature has demonstrated the importance of three domains of socialization—connection with significant others, regulation of behavior, and the facilitation of psychological autonomy—in predicting outcomes in adolescents and children (Barber, 1997a, 1997b; Gray & Steinberg, 1999; Hart, Newell, & Olsen, in press; Nelson, 1997; Steinberg, Dornbusch, & Brown, 1992). Psychological control—parenting that does not allow children psychological autonomy, as has been defined elsewhere in this volume, has received increased attention in the past decade (for a discussion of definitions and research, see chapter 2, this volume).

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Patton : Military Ideology In The War Film, Kristian Kjelsberg Jan 2002

Patton : Military Ideology In The War Film, Kristian Kjelsberg

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Step Toward Violence Prevention: "Non-Violent Communication" As Part Of A College Curriculum, Susan M. Blake Jan 2002

Step Toward Violence Prevention: "Non-Violent Communication" As Part Of A College Curriculum, Susan M. Blake

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Structural hierarchies are deeply embedded in institutions such as our educational system. It can be argued that this type of model reinforces an aggressive worldview and fosters an atmosphere of violence. Teaching students to communicate compassionately should promote empathy, discourage verbal aggression and reinforce a more peaceful worldview. To accomplish this, educators need a means of replacing hegemony that assumes hierarchy and aggressive conflict are inevitable. Marshall Rosenberg's (2001) Nonviolent Communication (NVC) may provide educators with an appropriate tool. Rosenberg's model counters the prevailing hegemony making it an ideal candidate to explore in relation to these issues. This paper examines …

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Symbiosis And Exchange In Multicultural Spaces: A Study Of Nadine Gordimer And Joy Harjo, Angelique V. Nixon Jan 2002

Symbiosis And Exchange In Multicultural Spaces: A Study Of Nadine Gordimer And Joy Harjo, Angelique V. Nixon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Multicultural literature opens up unique "worlds" that allow readers to experience multicultural spaces; these works are not only representations of real-world conditions, as many critics posit, but also "possible worlds" artfully constructed that transport readers to unfamiliar places. This thesis presents an analysis of the unique symbiosis and exchange that occurs between reader and author in multicultural literature through the use of possible-worlds theory. This study shows how such texts support a complex relationship between the real and the fictional through a process I deem "multicultural symbiosis." Two strategically chosen texts are considered, each representing a different socio-political-cultural context as …

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Imagination At Work: Improving Adult Literacy With The "Harry Potter" Novels, Jo Ann Bamdas Jan 2002

Imagination At Work: Improving Adult Literacy With The "Harry Potter" Novels, Jo Ann Bamdas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Global illiteracy remains rampant partly due to confusing definitions, inadequate data gathering, hidden agendas, and improper tools of stimulation. Adult literacy is a problem despite efforts and resources. Using children's and adolescents' literature can improve literacy but it is not being used enough due to false concepts. The problems and an adult non-reader profile are outlined. Current literature on literacy, children's literature theory, and critical plus public intellectual media in academia and popular culture is reviewed. I borrow Martha Nussbaum's idea of the narrative imagination to explore J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. I analyze and then provide a program …

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Negotiating Fictional Space In Nora Keller's "Comfort Woman", Savena. Budhu Jan 2002

Negotiating Fictional Space In Nora Keller's "Comfort Woman", Savena. Budhu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Multicultural literature has been characterized as primarily a collision between dominant and opposing orders, a binary dynamic manifested in any number of linguistic, cultural, social, and political forms. As valuable as this perspective has been in recent decades, multicultural literature offers more. Multicultural literature can be extended by applying to it the principles of possible-worlds theory, a recent critical approach that has pushed the envelope of literary interpretation to keep pace with other kinds of postmodern fiction. Despite the major headway of this new theory, however, its concepts have been rarely applied to multicultural fiction. Specifically within the Asian-American canon, …

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Communicating Space And Time Perception And Ideology In Online Texts, Nava. Dushi Jan 2002

Communicating Space And Time Perception And Ideology In Online Texts, Nava. Dushi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This thesis emerges from the realization of the paradox that lies beneath online technology which promises to change the way we think, yet penetrates our lives by employing a systematic simulation of our most basic cognitive skills. In order to understand this paradox in terms of space and time, the research examines the ways in which time and space are communicated on two disparate Internet websites. The assembled data are analyzed using an interdisciplinary approach that leads to a textual analysis based in theories of semiotics. The study finds that the Internet is fundamentally framed in spatial terms. The space …

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End Of Race As We Know It: Slavery, Segregation, And The African American Quest For Redress, Paul Anthony Dottin Jan 2002

End Of Race As We Know It: Slavery, Segregation, And The African American Quest For Redress, Paul Anthony Dottin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This is a study of one of the most controversial public matters concerning race in America today: the African American reparations movement for slavery and segregation. This issue is hotly contested because racial identity and the relative status and well-being of ethnic groups in America, a configuration I refer to as "race as we know it," is inextricably linked to matters of prejudice, pride, property, and public policy both presently and historically. Any substantial shift in the relative position of blacks and whites, America's most iconically opposed groups, promises to alter fundamental dynamics between these two populations, effectively ending "race …

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Bicentennial Man -- The New Millennium Assimilationism And The Foreigner Among Us, Lolita K. Buckner Inniss Jan 2002

Bicentennial Man -- The New Millennium Assimilationism And The Foreigner Among Us, Lolita K. Buckner Inniss

Publications

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Landscaping The Lehigh: The Creation Of A Middle Industrial Landscape In Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania., Augustine Nigro Jan 2002

Landscaping The Lehigh: The Creation Of A Middle Industrial Landscape In Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania., Augustine Nigro

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Located sixty miles above Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley follows the seventy-mile path of the Lehigh River as it descends from the Pocono Mountains south through the Blue Mountains into the rich agricultural lands of the Appalachian Great Valley. With anthracite deposits in its northern reaches, rich agricultural lands in its middle section, and commercial connections to Philadelphia at its mouth, nineteenth-century industrialists saw the river as a potential transportation route. From 1817 to 1829, the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company developed a system of slack water navigation along the river. With the opening of the channel in 1829, extractive industries …

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Progression Of Chronic Renal Disease In Several Animal Models: Possible Role Of Decreased Renal Nitric Oxide Production As A Primary Causative Factor., Aaron D. Erdely Jan 2002

Progression Of Chronic Renal Disease In Several Animal Models: Possible Role Of Decreased Renal Nitric Oxide Production As A Primary Causative Factor., Aaron D. Erdely

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Chronic renal disease is the progressive loss of renal function that can lead to end-stage renal disease. Recent studies from our laboratory have shown decreased total NO production in patients with renal disease. Animal models have shown decreased total and renal NO production and chronic NOS inhibition in otherwise healthy rats causes renal injury. The overall objective in this set of studies was to investigate intrarenal NO production in various models of CRD and determine if NO deficiency parallels, and perhaps causes renal injury. In the first study, we report that normal male SD rats exhibit age-dependent declines in total …

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