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Saint Boniface And The Conversion Of Germany During The Early Eight Century, Joel S. Thomas Jan 2002

Saint Boniface And The Conversion Of Germany During The Early Eight Century, Joel S. Thomas

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The overall theme of this project is Carolingian missionary activity during the first half of the eighth century, focusing specifically on the work of Saint Boniface of Crediton. My objectives were to establish that Saint Boniface borrowed conversion methodology from Pope Gregory I, define Teutonic and Celtic paganism, and illustrate how the rise of the Carolingian family aided Christian missionary efforts.

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An Investigation Of Factors That Influence How Students Decide On A Major At Western Kentucky University, Cinnamon C. White Jan 2002

An Investigation Of Factors That Influence How Students Decide On A Major At Western Kentucky University, Cinnamon C. White

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

During telephone interviews, students at Western Kentucky University were asked to explain how and why they chose a particular academic major. The students' race and majors were used in an attempt to determine if there were any noticeable differences in race/major categories. the study also examined some factors in students' backgrounds to determine if past experiences affected their decisions regarding majors.

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Dante's Thomistic Vision: The Commedia, Frank Muller Jan 2002

Dante's Thomistic Vision: The Commedia, Frank Muller

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Dante's Commedia derives its form and content from the philosophy of St.Thomas Aquinas. It is a philosophical poemthat allegorically examines medieval moral theory, articulated in Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, in order to morally instruct the medieval layperson. This paper focuses mostly around the capital sin of pride due to its important place throughout the work and its efficacy in illustrating the link between Aquinas and Alighieri. The discussion of the sin involves providing Thomas' definition of pride and its opposite virtue, humility, in comparison with Dante's artistic representations. The overall goal is to present Dante's Commedia as an intricately philosophical work …

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Discipline, Nathalie Anderson Jan 2002

Discipline, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

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Seven Recent Commentaries On Mark Twain, Peter Schmidt Jan 2002

Seven Recent Commentaries On Mark Twain, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

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Command Performances: Black Storytellers In Ruth Mcenery Stuart's "Blink" (1893) And Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Dumb Witness" (1899), Peter Schmidt Jan 2002

Command Performances: Black Storytellers In Ruth Mcenery Stuart's "Blink" (1893) And Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Dumb Witness" (1899), Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

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Review Of "The Identifying Fictions Of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity And Postmodern Blackness" By J.N. Duvall, Philip M. Weinstein Jan 2002

Review Of "The Identifying Fictions Of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity And Postmodern Blackness" By J.N. Duvall, Philip M. Weinstein

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

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A Specht Module Analog For The Rook Monoid, Cheryl Grood Jan 2002

A Specht Module Analog For The Rook Monoid, Cheryl Grood

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Works

The wealth of beautiful combinatorics that arise in the representation theory of the symmetric group is well-known. In this paper, we analyze the representations of a related algebraic structure called the rook monoid from a combinatorial angle. In particular, we give a combinatorial construction of the irreducible representations of the rook monoid. Since the rook monoid contains the symmetric group, it is perhaps not surprising that the construction outlined in this paper is very similar to the classic combinatorial construction of the irreducible Sn-representations: namely, the Specht modules.

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Hat Derivatives, Stephen B. Maurer , '67 Jan 2002

Hat Derivatives, Stephen B. Maurer , '67

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

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Wielding Ockham’S Knitting Needles, Neil Fulton Jan 2002

Wielding Ockham’S Knitting Needles, Neil Fulton

Faculty Publications

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Are Employee Appraisals Making The Grade? A Basic Primer And Illustrative Application Of Federal Private Employment Discrimination Law, Thomas Geu Jan 2002

Are Employee Appraisals Making The Grade? A Basic Primer And Illustrative Application Of Federal Private Employment Discrimination Law, Thomas Geu

Faculty Publications

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How Long Do We Live?, John Bongaarts, Griffith Feeney Jan 2002

How Long Do We Live?, John Bongaarts, Griffith Feeney

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Period life expectancy is calculated from age-specific death rates using life table methods that are among the oldest and most fundamental tools of demography. These methods are rarely questioned, much less criticized. Yet changing age patterns of adult mortality in contemporary countries with high life expectancy provide a basis for questioning the conventional use of age-specific death rates and life tables. This paper argues that when the mean age at death is rising, period life expectancy at birth as conventionally calculated overestimates life expectancy. Estimates of this upward bias, ranging from 1.6 years for the United States and Sweden to …

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The End Of The Fertility Transition In The Developing World, John Bongaarts Jan 2002

The End Of The Fertility Transition In The Developing World, John Bongaarts

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Fertility declines are now underway in many developing countries, and the focus of the debate about future fertility trends is shifting from the early to the later phases of the transition. This study examines patterns and determinants of fertility in the developing world using UN estimates of the total fertility rates for 143 developing countries from 1950 to 2000. The main objective is to identify regularities in the past record that may provide clues to future trends. Three key findings emerge from this analysis. First, the pace of fertility decline decelerates as countries reach the later stages of the transition. …

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Facts About Adolescents From The Demographic And Health Survey—Statistical Tables For Program Planning: Haiti 1994, Population Council Jan 2002

Facts About Adolescents From The Demographic And Health Survey—Statistical Tables For Program Planning: Haiti 1994, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The Population Council initiated its work on adolescents in the mid-1990s. At that time, those advocating greater attention to adolescent issues were concerned about adolescent fertility—particularly outside of marriage—and adolescent “risk-taking” behavior. As an international scientific organization with its mandate centered around the needs of developing countries, the Council sought a more nuanced and context-specific understanding of the problems confronting adolescents in the developing world. In working with colleagues inside and outside the Council, it became clear that information on adolescents, and the way data are organized, were limiting the ability to understand the diversity of their experiences or to …

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Facts About Adolescents From The Demographic And Health Survey—Statistical Tables For Program Planning: Nigeria 1999, Population Council Jan 2002

Facts About Adolescents From The Demographic And Health Survey—Statistical Tables For Program Planning: Nigeria 1999, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The Population Council initiated its work on adolescents in the mid-1990s. At that time, those advocating greater attention to adolescent issues were concerned about adolescent fertility—particularly outside of marriage—and adolescent “risk-taking” behavior. As an international scientific organization with its mandate centered around the needs of developing countries, the Council sought a more nuanced and context-specific understanding of the problems confronting adolescents in the developing world. In working with colleagues inside and outside the Council, it became clear that information on adolescents, and the way data are organized, were limiting the ability to understand the diversity of their experiences or to …

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Facts About Adolescents From The Demographic And Health Survey—Statistical Tables For Program Planning: Turkey 1993, Population Council Jan 2002

Facts About Adolescents From The Demographic And Health Survey—Statistical Tables For Program Planning: Turkey 1993, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The Population Council initiated its work on adolescents in the mid-1990s. At that time, those advocating greater attention to adolescent issues were concerned about adolescent fertility—particularly outside of marriage—and adolescent “risk-taking” behavior. As an international scientific organization with its mandate centered around the needs of developing countries, the Council sought a more nuanced and context-specific understanding of the problems confronting adolescents in the developing world. In working with colleagues inside and outside the Council, it became clear that information on adolescents, and the way data are organized, were limiting the ability to understand the diversity of their experiences or to …

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Facts About Adolescents From The Demographic And Health Survey—Statistical Tables For Program Planning: Zimbabwe 1999, Population Council Jan 2002

Facts About Adolescents From The Demographic And Health Survey—Statistical Tables For Program Planning: Zimbabwe 1999, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The Population Council initiated its work on adolescents in the mid-1990s. At that time, those advocating greater attention to adolescent issues were concerned about adolescent fertility—particularly outside of marriage—and adolescent “risk-taking” behavior. As an international scientific organization with its mandate centered around the needs of developing countries, the Council sought a more nuanced and context-specific understanding of the problems confronting adolescents in the developing world. In working with colleagues inside and outside the Council, it became clear that information on adolescents, and the way data are organized, were limiting the ability to understand the diversity of their experiences or to …

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Training And Support Of Developing-Country Population Scientists: A Panel Report, Jane Menken, Ann K. Blanc, Cynthia B. Lloyd Jan 2002

Training And Support Of Developing-Country Population Scientists: A Panel Report, Jane Menken, Ann K. Blanc, Cynthia B. Lloyd

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This report offers an assessment of the current situation and needs for the future with regard to training population professionals. As the concerns of population scientists become more diverse and as institutions look beyond the limitations of their own programs, collaborative training programs are increasingly seen as an effective means of maximizing the training experience of students while potentially lowering overall costs. While it is clear that the most desirable situation is one in which population experts are trained primarily in high-quality institutions located in their own countries or regions, it is equally clear that this scenario is not likely …

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Demographic Factors In East Asian Regional Integration, Geoffrey Mcnicoll Jan 2002

Demographic Factors In East Asian Regional Integration, Geoffrey Mcnicoll

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The Remapping Asia project, to which this paper is a contribution, investigates broad spatial changes in the ways that East Asia’s political and social life are organized and economies operate. Such changes are attributable to planned action of governments, firms, and other organized groups and to the unorganized but in some measure predictable behavior of myriad families and individuals. The project’s particular interest is in processes of regionalization-both through the deliberate construction of political institutions and through the largely unplanned emergence of regional affiliations and identities. Demographic factors play a potentially significant part both in promoting and in impeding regional …

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Childcare, Mothers' Work, And Earnings: Findings From The Urban Slums Of Guatemala City, Kelly Hallman, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Marie T. Ruel, Benedicte De La Briere Jan 2002

Childcare, Mothers' Work, And Earnings: Findings From The Urban Slums Of Guatemala City, Kelly Hallman, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Marie T. Ruel, Benedicte De La Briere

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This study investigates the effects of childcare on work and earnings of mothers in the slums of Guatemala City. Recognizing that mother’s work behavior may depend on the availability of childcare, the modeling approach allows participation in the labor force and use of formal daycare to be jointly determined. We also investigate whether a mother’s “status” within her household (as measured by the value of the assets she brought to her marriage) influences her entry into the labor force. Finally, we explore the impact of childcare prices on a mother’s earnings, conditional on her decision to work. The study uses …

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Childcare, Mothers' Work, And Earnings: Findings From The Urban Slums Of Guatemala City [Arabic], Kelly Hallman, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Marie T. Ruel, Benedicte De La Briere Jan 2002

Childcare, Mothers' Work, And Earnings: Findings From The Urban Slums Of Guatemala City [Arabic], Kelly Hallman, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Marie T. Ruel, Benedicte De La Briere

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This study investigates the effects of childcare on work and earnings of mothers in the slums of Guatemala City. Recognizing that mother’s work behavior may depend on the availability of childcare, the modeling approach allows participation in the labor force and use of formal daycare to be jointly determined. We also investigate whether a mother’s “status” within her household (as measured by the value of the assets she brought to her marriage) influences her entry into the labor force. Finally, we explore the impact of childcare prices on a mother’s earnings, conditional on her decision to work. The study uses …

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What About Us? Bringing Infertility Into Reproductive Health Care, Okonofua Friday, Bishakha Datta Jan 2002

What About Us? Bringing Infertility Into Reproductive Health Care, Okonofua Friday, Bishakha Datta

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Infertility is a major reproductive health problem throughout much of the world. Despite the prevalence and seriousness of infertility, the population and reproductive health field has largely neglected this problem. National policies and international donor organizations have been one-sided in their focus on programs designed to prevent unwanted pregnancies. This issue of Quality/Calidad/Qualité, with clinic-based narratives and case reports from India and Nigeria, illustrates what is involved in trying to address the problem of infertility in developing countries. A possible framework for incorporating limited infertility care into a family planning or reproductive health program includes providing education and counseling, preliminary …

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Bouncing Branes, Emil Prodanov Jan 2002

Bouncing Branes, Emil Prodanov

Articles

Two classical scalar fields are minimally coupled to gravity in the Kachru-Shulz-Silverstein scenario with a rolling fifth radius. A Tolman wormhole solution is found for a R x S^3 brane with Lorentz metric and for a R x AdS_3 brane with positive definite metric.

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Academic Freedom In Urofsky's Wake: Post September 11 Remarks On "Who Owns Academic Freedom?", Doug Rendleman Jan 2002

Academic Freedom In Urofsky's Wake: Post September 11 Remarks On "Who Owns Academic Freedom?", Doug Rendleman

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Availability Of Works Cited In Recent Law Review Articles On Lexis, Westlaw, The Internet, And Other Databases, Simon Canick Jan 2002

Availability Of Works Cited In Recent Law Review Articles On Lexis, Westlaw, The Internet, And Other Databases, Simon Canick

Faculty Scholarship

In this study, a group of recent law articles was examined to determine the proportion of cited resources that are easily findeable online. Searches were conducted in databases such as LEXIS and Westlaw, and on the Internet, for full-text versions of every source cited in seven articles. The results have been broken down into 13 categories, including: federal cases, books, foreign law, and legal periodicals pre-1990. Not surprisingly coverage differs widely between the categories. Overall the study found that 77% of the 1,984 citations in the articles reviewed are available online. This article concludes with a general discussion of why …

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Toward A Great Sioux Nation Judicial Support Center And Supreme Court: An Interim Planning And Recommendation Report For The Wakpa Sica Historical Society’S Reconciliation Place Project, Frank Pommersheim, John Lavelle Jan 2002

Toward A Great Sioux Nation Judicial Support Center And Supreme Court: An Interim Planning And Recommendation Report For The Wakpa Sica Historical Society’S Reconciliation Place Project, Frank Pommersheim, John Lavelle

Faculty Publications

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Is There A Little (Or Not So Little) Constitutional Crisis Developing In Indian Law?, Frank Pommersheim Jan 2002

Is There A Little (Or Not So Little) Constitutional Crisis Developing In Indian Law?, Frank Pommersheim

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Looking Forward And Looking Back: The Promise And Potential Of A Sioux Nation Judicial Support Center And Sioux Nation Supreme Court, Frank Pommersheim Jan 2002

Looking Forward And Looking Back: The Promise And Potential Of A Sioux Nation Judicial Support Center And Sioux Nation Supreme Court, Frank Pommersheim

Faculty Publications

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Panel Ii: Natural Resources, Economics, And The Environment: Global Issues Facing Native Communities [Panel Discussion], Frank Pommersheim Jan 2002

Panel Ii: Natural Resources, Economics, And The Environment: Global Issues Facing Native Communities [Panel Discussion], Frank Pommersheim

Faculty Publications

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South Dakota’S Disability Discrimination Laws: Limits And Vantages, Tom Simmons Jan 2002

South Dakota’S Disability Discrimination Laws: Limits And Vantages, Tom Simmons

Faculty Publications

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