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Reply To Winterhalder's Behavioral And Other Human Ecologies: Critique, Response And Progress Through Criticism, Suzanne Joseph

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Market Integration And The Distribution Of Ecological Knowledge Within An Ecuadorian Fishing Community, Greg Guest

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Scholars typically depict traditional ecological knowledge as a vanishing resource, negatively correlated with the capitalization of a community. The default view also tends to conceptualize such knowledge as one cohesive system, unitarily responsive to external forces. Using data from an artisanal shrimping community in Ecuador, this paper argues that current views are not sufficient to capture the complexity of socially distributed knowledge and need to be expanded. In particular, I show that integration into a market economy does not necessarily erode local knowledge about the natural world, but can actually foster the development of a new body of ecological knowledge. …

Wild Plant Classification In Little Dixie : Variation In A Regional Culture, Justin M. Nolan

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

This study examines the relation between folk expertise and wild plant classification in Little Dixie, a seven-county vernacular cultural region in central Missouri. A successive pile-sort task was administered to ten local wild plant "experts" and ten "novices" of Euro-American descent to investigate how ethnobotanical knowledge influences the cognitive construction of folk taxonomies. The results indicate that experts categorize plants according to utilitarian features (e.g., edibility, medicinal value) and morphology (e.g., herbs, trees) while novices rely almost exclusively on morphological traits. While the classification strategies of experts and novices are substantially different, a single categorization system is common to both …

The Evolution Of Human Sociality: A Darwinian Conflict Perspective, Eric C. Jones

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Transit Ridership Efficiency As A Function Of Fares, Gerrit R. Moore

Journal of Public Transportation

The purpose of this study is to assist in the development of transit fare policies that exploit the benefits of public transit in the mix of transportation options for Washington State. The study relates fares to ridership performance, fare-box recovery, and system utilization.

Ridership efficiency, a measure of transit performance, is estimated for 24 State transit systems. A mathematical model is developed that relates fares to ridership efficiency. The ridership efficiency function follows the complement of a cumulative normal probability distribution. The tail of the distribution is reached at $0.95. Higher fares have little impact on ridership efficiency. An operating …

Monteverde Report, 2002, Lisa Fitzgerald

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

Final Report. The goals and objectives of the 2002 Sustainable Futures program in creating guidelines for conservation and development in the Monteverde Zone, focusing specifically on Santa Elena, that can assist local planning efforts, as well as help local people in their understanding of the different possibilities and constraints that exist for future development.

Family Preservation Journal, 2002, Volume 6, Issue 1 (Entire Issue)

Journal of Family Strengths

The entire issue. Large file.

The Voice, Winter 2002: Volume 47, Issue 2, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Natural Science Majors Get Plenty of Hands-On Experience Before They Graduate; As Others See Us; Drawing Class Mounts Group Show in Cherokee; Secondary Math Students Get an Extra Run at Student Teaching; Intern Arranges Microtome Donation; Voice Students Earn Honors; Arete; Senior Receives Regional Engineering Award; New Scholarship Funded; Dordt Receives Commendations from Consultants; Ninety-Seven Percent of Education Alums are in Their Classrooms; Lilly Fellows Program Funds New Mentoring Opportunities; Lacrosse Takes Campus by Storm; Costumes are Displayed at ACTF; Agriculture Conference to be Held at Dordt Next Spring; Clubs Broaden What Students Learn in Class; Senior Engineering Project Bears …

Race And Artistic Freedom In Langston Hughes' "Home", Stephen Cooper

Short Story

No abstract provided.

Njit Highlanders Women's Soccer 2002 Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department

Soccer - Women's

No abstract provided.

Media And Religion, Paul A. Soukup

Communication

This survey will examine three broad strands of communication research on media and religion. First, it will review some emerging frameworks for studying media and religion and see how current scholars situate the topic. Second, it will look at how people have studied the relation of different media to religion, focusing on journalism (especially the coverage of religion), the entertainment media (both the content and the critique), and the information media (primarily the Internet). Finally, this survey will examine the Christian reflection on media, occurring in what some term Communication Theology (Plude 2001: 3).

Njit Highlanders Men's Volleyball 2002 Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department

Volleyball - Men's

No abstract provided.

Smu Research, Volume 9, Office Of Public Affairs

SMU Research Magazine

No abstract provided.

Covering, Kenji Yoshino

Faculty Articles

This article considers how the gay civil rights movement might enrich an American civil rights discourse predicated on the paradigm classifications of race and sex. It posits that gays may be able to contribute a more robust theory of the relationship between assimilation and discrimination, a theory which takes assimilation to be an effect of discrimination as well as an evasion from it. The article maintains that gays may be more attuned to the discriminatory aspects of assimilation because they are capable of assimilating in more ways than racial minorities or women. Either in fact or in the imagination of …

Framing Transactions In Constitutional Law, Daryl J. Levinson

Faculty Articles

Common law rules and adjudication are structured around discrete transactions between strangers. The prevailing, classically liberal, model of tort, contract, and property cases features atomistic individuals, otherwise independent from one another, who interact only at the point of a discontinuous event, sharply limited in space and time. In the paradigmatic case of a tortious collision or contract breach, the unit of legal analysis, or transaction, ordinarily seems self-evident: it is simply the self-contained, harm-causing interaction that disrupted the otherwise unrelated lives of the two parties. The focus of adjudication is on the marginal deviation from the position or welfare of …

2001-2002 Faculty Senate Annual Report, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

The primary file includes the 2001-2002 Committee on Academic Responsibility Annual Report. Additional annual reports are attached.

Echoes From The Hill, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Office Of Institutional Advancement And Alumni

Echoes from the Hill

No abstract provided.

Opting For Real Death Penalty Reform, James S. Liebman

Faculty Scholarship

The capital punishment system in the United States is broken. Studies reveal growing delays nationwide between death sentences and executions and inexcusably high rates of reversals and retrials of capital verdicts. The current system persistently malfuinctions because it rewards trial actors, such as police, prosecutors, and trial judges, for imposing death sentences, but it does not force them either to avoid making mistakes or to bear the cost of mistakes that are made during the process. Nor is there any adversarial discipline imposed at the trial level because capital defendants usually receive appointed counsel who either do not have experience …

Education Law, Carolyn Hanahan

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Employment And Labor Law, Earl M. Jones Iii, Eduardo F. Cuaderes, Jennifer A. Youpa

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Attacking The Copyright Evildoers In Cyberspace, Cynthia M. Ho

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sex, Marriage And History: Analyzing The Continued Resistance To Same-Sex Marriage, Josephine Ross

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Fault Of Not Knowing, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

Despite the outpouring of interest in tort and criminal theory over the last thirty years, not much progress has been made toward understanding the basic concepts for analyzing liability. Common law theorists of torts and criminal law tend to accept the conventional distinction between objective and subjective standards and the view that objective negligence is not really fault in the way that subjective negligence is. The author's view is that this distinction between objective and subjective standards is misunderstood and that, in fact, so-called objective negligence is a test of fault or culpability in the same way that subjective standards …

Peer Nutrition Education: A Model For Nutrition Education Among Spanish-Language Participants Of The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants And Children (Wic), Maximino Alfredo Mejía

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Despite the steady improvement in the health status of Americans, Hispanics are a minority in the United States with greater prevalence of several infectious and chronic diseases and less health knowledge than the average citizen. Nearly half of the Hispanics living in this country die of preventable nutrition-related conditions, with heart disease and cancer being the leading causes. Since this minority has limited access to health care and preventive services, there is a need for an inexpensive, viable model of health education for this underserved segment of the population in order to lower the excess of preventable diseases. We trained …

Educating Citizens, Peter L. Strauss

Faculty Scholarship

Socrates and his followers, the Cynics among them, put great store in educating the youths who would become the leaders of the Athenian republic. The Athenians agreed that education of their youth was of the utmost importance for their state, and executed Soc-rates for corrupting them. As I thought about how these concluding remarks could do more than cast a pale reflection of the extraordinary learning and thought that have preceded them, talking about education leapt to mind.

Narrative Relevance, Imagined Juries, And A Supreme Court Inspired Agenda For Jury Research, Richard O. Lempert

Articles

This paper has its roots in Old Chief v. United States, a case the Supreme Court of the United States decided in 1997. I will begin by describing this case; then comment on its implications for the Supreme Court’s conception of the jury, and conclude by examining the agenda one may draw from it for empirical jury research. Old Chief arose when Johnny Lynn Old Chief was charged not only with assault with a dangerous weapon and using a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence, but also with violating a law that forbids convicted felons from possessing …

Endowment Effects Within Corporate Agency Relationships, Jennifer H. Arlen, Matthew L. Spitzer, Eric L. Talley

Faculty Scholarship

Behavioral economics is an increasingly prominent field within corporate law scholarship. A particularly noteworthy behavioral bias is the "endowment effect" – the observed differential between an individual's willingness to pay to obtain an entitlement and her willingness to accept to part with one. Should endowment effects pervade corporate contexts, they would significantly complicate much common wisdom within business law, such as the presumed optimality of ex ante agreements. Existing research, however, does not adequately address the extent to which people manifest endowment effects within agency relationships. This article presents an experimental test for endowment effects for subjects situated in an …

Policing Guns And Youth Violence, Jeffrey A. Fagan

Faculty Scholarship

To combat the epidemic of youth gun violence in the 1980s and 1990s, law enforcement agencies across the United States adopted a variety of innovative strategies. This article presents case studies of eight cities' efforts to police gun crime. Some cities emphasized police-citizen partnerships to address youth violence, whereas others focused on aggressive enforcement against youth suspected of even minor criminal activity. Still others attempted to change youth behavior through "soft" strategies built on alternatives to arrest. Finally, some cities used a combination of approaches. Key findings discussed in this article include:

• Law enforcement agencies that emphasized police-citizen cooperation benefited …

Human Rights, Terrorism, And Trade – Remarks By Lori Fisler Damrosch, Lori Fisler Damrosch

Faculty Scholarship

By putting human rights first and terrorism in the middle, I hope to open up questions about linkages among these regimes and whether measures within one regime can advance objectives of the others.

Policing Disorder: Can We Reduce Serious Crime By Punishing Petty Offenses?, Bernard E. Harcourt

Faculty Scholarship

Punishment in these late modem times is marked by two striking developments. The first is a stunning increase in the number of persons incarcerated. Federal and state prison populations nationwide have increased from less than 200,000 in 1970 to more than 1,300,000 in 2000, with another 600,000 persons held in local jails.1 Today, approximately 2 million men and women are incarcerated in prisons and jails in this country.The intellectual rationale for this increase is provided by "incapacitation theory''-the idea that a hardcore 6 percent of youths and young adults are responsible for the majority of crime and that locking up …