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No. 24: Spaces Of Vulnerability: Migration And Hiv/Aids In South Africa, Brian Williams, Eleanor Gouws, Mark Lurie, Jonathan Crush

Southern African Migration Programme

Seventy per cent of the 36 million people infected worldwide with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa and within this region the countries of Southern Africa are the worst affected. The eight countries with the highest rates of infection are in Southern Africa, followed by six countries in East Africa, and then five other countries, only one outside Africa. The reasons why the highest rates of infection in the world occur in Southern Africa are unclear. Although the countries of the region have much in common, their histories over the last twenty years have been very different.

A number of different …

No. 23: Gender And The Brain Drain From South Africa, Belinda Dodson

Southern African Migration Programme

South Africa is experiencing a substantial “brain drain”, underestimated in official emigration statistics. Yet there is uncertainty over issues such as why some leave and others stay, whether people who leave do so for good, and whether the brain drain will accelerate in the future. The surveys upon which this paper is based aimed to add some substance to the debate on the loss of core skills to the South African economy. They present a profile of the skilled population of South Africa and provide some insight into the factors determining emigration potential. Two distinct surveys were conducted: one of …

No. 09: Transnationalism And African Immigration To South Africa, Jonathan Crush, Vincent Williams

Southern African Migration Programme

The demise of formal apartheid has created new and as yet only partially understood opportunities for migration to South Africa. Legal migration from other Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, for example, has increased almost ten-fold since 1990 to over four million visitors per year. South Africa’s (re)insertion into the global economy has brought new streams of legal and undocumented migrants from outside the SADC region and new ethnic constellations within. The easing of legal and unauthorized entry to South Africa has made the country a new destination for African asylum-seekers, long-distance traders, entrepreneurs, students and professionals (Bouillon 1996; Saasa …

No. 08: Thinking About The Brain Drain In Southern Africa, Jonathan Crush, Vincent Williams

Southern African Migration Programme

The movement of skilled people from one country to another is one of the most hotly contested public policy questions today. Debates amongst politicians, academics and bureaucrats about the scale and character of skilled migration, and the policies required to address these movements, are taking place in countries throughout the world (Zweig and Changgui 1995; Odunsi 1996; Phillips 1996; Carrington and Detragiache 1998; Iredale 1998; Iqbal 1999). As the opportunities for skilled personnel to move increases with globalization and the shift to a service economy (Sassen 1988, 1998), as the costs of international travel decrease, and as the ability to …

Miss Snell's Way: A Life-Affirming Organic Model Created In Sport, Robin G. Cash

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This 156 page dissertation by Robin G. Cash, Ursinus College Class of 1972, was submitted to the faculty of Fielding Graduate Institute in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human and Organizational Systems.

The dissertation explores a women’s way of coaching and being in sport that existed prior to Title IX. It considers a shift from an organic to a mechanistic coaching approach. An alternative model based on the concept of organicism and underlying principles of relational power, life-affirming actions, and inclusiveness of all beings is presented. This new model emerged from three …

Interpreting Early Modern Woman Abuse: The Case Of Anne Dormer, Mary O'Connor

Quidditas

[T]hese hard laws I live under must keepe us from seeing one another.

Anne Dormer

When Anne Dormer, of Rousham, Oxfordshire, wrote to her sister, Elizabeth Trumbull, in August 1686, she complained that she would not be able to greet her on her return from a tumultuous year in France. Elizabeth (sometimes called Katherine) was married to the special envoy William Trumbull and had just endured the events of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Anne’s husband, Robert Dormer, had certain “laws” under which his wife had to live, one of which prohibited her from going to London to …

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Quidditas

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Honors House Happenings, Welcome Fall 2002, Illinois State University, Honors Program

Honors House Happenings

Honors Program Newsletter

Office Of International Studies And Programs Newsletter, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, Illinois State University, Office Of International Studies And Programs

Office of International Studies and Programs Newsletter

Newsletter of the Office of International Studies and Programs

Measuring Intercultural Sensitivity In Different Cultural Contexts, Wolfgang Fritz, Antje Möllenberg, Guo-Ming Chen

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

As a main dimension of intercultural communication competence, intercultural sensitivity has gained increasing attention in different disciplines. In the United States, Chen and Starosta have developed an instrument, comprising 5 factors with 24 items, for measuring intercultural sensitivity. In this study, we tested Chen and Starosta’s instrument in a German sample by using confirmatory factor analysis. Overall, the results showed that the instrument holds satisfactorily. Although the results also suggested that the operationalization of the concepts in the instrument can be further improved, the instrument as a whole is a valid one through which a culture-free scale for measuring intercultural …

Seniority And Superiority: A Case Analysis Of Decision Making In A Taiwanese Religious Group, Guo-Ming Chen, Jensen Chung

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This paper, using participant observation methodology, analyzes a 4-hour meeting held among delegates of a large religius organization in Taiwan. The analysis focuses how a participant wields the social power of seniority in decision-making process. Five components of decision-making proposed by Kume (1985) are used as the framework of analysis. The findings extend Chen and Starosta’s (1997-8) argument that although seniority, as the locus of power and authority in Chinese society, is normally used to reinforce and perpetuate Chinese cultural values, it might be abused for gaining personal interests. The abuse of senior power, as this case study shows, leads …

The Effects Of Regular Aerobic Exercise On Tension Headache, Brittany E. Canady

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

A substantial portion of the population will suffer from headache at some point in their lives. This study examines the effect of a simple behavioral treatment for one of the two most common forms of headache, tension headache. Participants selected for the study were drawn from introductory psychology and exercise courses at Marshall University, reported having at least one tension headache per week, and exercised two or fewer times per week. Participants enrolled in an eight-week physical education aerobic exercise course through the university, and monitored their headache activity both during the class and through an eight-week baseline period. Participants …

Ritalin And The Child, Valerie Vickers

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This study focuses on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) the history of the disease, sufferers, individual accounts from sufferers, and both positive outcomes and negative repercussions of its treatment. Extensive secondary research and the collection of a personal account form the body of the work. The information focuses attention on key points regarding the historical background of ADHD, including: the discovery of the disease, change in categories of drugs used to control it, and the rate of evolution in thoughts on and treatment of the disease. Also researched are the various guidelines as well as ignored factors in the diagnosing …

Let 'The Fundamental Things Apply': Necessary And Contingent Truths In Legal Scholarship, Richard A. Epstein

Articles

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Is Incoherence Outrageous?, Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, Ilana Ritov, David Schkade

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Why They Hate Us: The Role Of Social Dynamics Law And The War On Terrorism, Cass R. Sunstein

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Fear And The Regulatory Model Of Counterterrorism, Eric A. Posner

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Do 501 Basic Christian Theology, Laurence W. Wood

Syllabi

(1) William E. Hordern, A Layman’s Guide to Protestant Theology (New York: Macmillan Co., 1973) (selected chapters, on reserve shelf). (2) John Lawson, Introduction to Christian Doctrine (Grand Rapids: Zondervan). (3) C. S. Lewis, Miracles (New York: Macmillan Co.) (selected readings, on reserve shelf) (4) Thomas Oden, The Living God (New York: Harper, 1987) (selected readings, on reserve shelf) (5) Pannenberg, “The Revelation of God in Jesus of Nazareth,” Theology as History, ed. James M. Robinson and John B. Cobb, Jr. (New York: Harper, 1967), pp. 101-133. (reserve shelf). (6) L. Wood, “Defining the Modern Concept of Self-Revelation: Toward a …

Pacific Rx Tracts: January/February 2002, Tracey Allen, Anietie Chizea, Natasha Hermis, Michael Foster Holman

Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy

Newsletter published by students of UOP's Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, containing articles on medical studies, drug trials, and other industry-related topics.

Fearfully And Wonderfully Made, David L. Smith

Phenomenology Center Books

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction & The Department's Philosophical Anthropology (p. 15)

Chapter 2: The First Decennial (1959-1969) (p. 29)

Chapter 3: The Second Decennial (1969-1979) (p. 54)

Chapter 4: The Third Decennial ( 1979-1989) (p. 74)

Chapter 5: The Fourth Decennial (1989-1999) (p. 104)

Chapter 6: The New Millennium (1999-2000) (p. 136)

Personal Growth Groups For Therapists, Vicky A. Knapp

Graduate Research Papers

Since the birth of psychotherapy, the need for therapists to attend to their own personal healing and growth has been recognized. This tradition of personal therapy has been incorporated into many current programs that train therapists/helpers in this country. Freud and a large number of subsequent practitioners have also advocated periodic or ongoing personal therapy throughout the therapist's career span. Self-exploration groups can be an excellent means to keep helpers in touch with their humanness, to further their personal and professional growth, and to reduce toxic consequences of practicing therapy.

A Preferred Vision For Administering Elementary Schools : A Reflective Essay, Shelly A. Petersen

Graduate Research Papers

The principal of the 21st century must be able to balance many activities to meet the needs of all constituents. In creating an environment that meets the needs of all, the principal must focus in on six essential concepts: 1) creating a team approach, 2) building a shared vision through communication, 3) facilitating change, 4) managing time, 5) creating climate, and 6) improving instruction. I am convinced that if a principal focuses attention on these six concepts he/she can create a vision within the school that centers its attention on student achievement. When an administrator does so a vision to …

Self -Perception Of Competence And Its Relationship To The Academic Achievement Of Students Attending Middle School, Louis Jr. Cavallo

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In 1982, the National Middle School Association published This We Believe, which outlines the general characteristics of developmentally responsive middle schools. The characteristics include interdisciplinary teaching teams, advisory programs, exploratory courses, and expanded extracurricular programs (NMSA, 1982). These middle school components that address affective characteristics were developed, in part, to ensure that adolescents attending middle school are provided with the opportunity to have positive interpersonal relations with an adult advisor, a smaller learning community within the larger school, and opportunities to develop positive peer relations. While developmentally responsive middle schools have an emphasis on the affective characteristics of adolescent development, …

Sami Matters (Winter 2002), Center For Evidence Based Practices

SAMI Matters

A newsletter of the Ohio Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Coordinating Center of Excellence (SAMI CCOE). The SAMI CCOE is a partnership between the Cuyahoga County Community Mental Health Research Institute at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, CWRU. The partnership is in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Mental Health.

Clemson Graduate School Catalog, 2002-2003, Clemson University

Clemson Graduate Announcements

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Comparing Attentional Bias To Smoking Cues In Current Smokers, Former Smokers, And Non-Smokers Using A Dot-Probe Task, Ronald N. Ehrman, Steven J. Robbins, Melissa Bromwell, Megan E. Lankford, John R. Monterosso, Charles P. O’Brien

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Publications

Much evidence documents that individuals with emotional and drug-use disorders demonstrate biased attention toward stimuli associated with their disorder. This bias appears to diminish following successful treatment. Two studies examined whether current cigarette smokers show biased attention toward smoking-related images compared with non-smokers (Studies 1 and 2) and whether this bias is less pronounced in former smokers (Study 2). Attentional bias toward cigarette-related photographs was examined using the dot-probe task. Pairs of images (one smoking-related) appeared side by side for 500 ms on a computer screen prior to the presentation of a probe (an asterisk) replacing one of the photographs. …

From Cognitive Dissonance To Self-Motivated Learning, Edmund J. Hansen

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Motivation is a multi-level change process we need to help students embrace. It often starts with experiences of cognitive dissonance and culminates in the definition of one’s learning purpose.

Assisted Reproduction In Jewish Law, Daniel B. Sinclair

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article attempts to untangle Jewish law regarding assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), namely artificial insemination with husband's sperm, artificial insemination with donor sperm, and in vitro fertilization. The author examines teachings by prominent Jewish law scholars and clarifies basic schools of thought regarding each method. He explores Jewish law prohibitions on incest and adultery and the laws regarding legal parentage and lineage of the child and explains the consequences of ARTs on those laws.

A Comparison Of Fatal School Shootings In Rural Communities, Scott T. Kidd, Cheryl L. Meyer

School of Professional Psychology Faculty Publications

Disturbing new patterns have marked the occurrence of recent lethal school violence where young offenders have targeted large groups of fellow students as their victims. The current study is an effort to understand this growing trend of youth violence. Based on analysis of several cases that occurred between 1996 and 1999, a profile of the offenders is suggested built on similarities and differences between cases that were researched. Data was collected from online databases and internet websites for various news organizations. Sources of data included reports from national, regional and local newspapers, newsmagazines, wire services, interview transcripts, and reports posted …

The Crucible Of Flight, Adrian Kinnane

Local and Rare Books

Adrian Kinnane’s unpublished manuscript “The Crucible of Flight” is an in depth look at what outside influences helped the Wright Brothers become the first to be successful in the quest for flight. Kinnane considers that the difference between them and their competitor/colleagues may well have been the difference that crowned them ultimately with success. His main focus is the familial and personal forces that set the Wrights apart. He studies the Wright family bond, the friendly and adversarial ties the Wrights developed outside the family bond, and the fraternal bond between Orville and Wilbur Wright.