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Participants' Perceptions Of The Childcare Subsidy System, Sue Pearlmutter, Elizabeth E. Bartle

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper presents a focus group study of perceptions of cash assistance participants in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and the San Fernando Valley in California regarding childcare subsidy use, choices of care, and perceptions of quality. TANF participants discuss experiences in the subsidy system and indicate needs and preferences for childcare. Advocates, policy makers, and parents recognize the need for suitable childcare so that TANF recipients can go to work. However, discussants' comments demonstrate one result of a changing, but not yet changed, social safety net. The authors explore strategies to address participants' concerns-childcare systems that neither function as promised, nor …

Divorcing Power And Reason: Spinoza And The Founding Of Modern Law, Benoit Frydman

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Law Without Authority: Sources Of The Welfare State In Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Arthur J. Jacobson

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lamb Shift Of Laser-Dressed Atomic States, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Jorg Evers, Martin K. Haas, Christoph H. Keitel

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We discuss radiative corrections to an atomic two-level system subject to an intense driving laser field. It is shown that the Lamb shift of the laser-dressed states, which are the natural state basis of the combined atom-laser system, cannot be explained in terms of the Lamb shift received by the atomic bare states which is usually observed in spectroscopic experiments. In the final part, we propose an experimental scheme to measure these corrections based on the incoherent resonance fluorescence spectrum of the driven atom.

Exploring Contraceptive Pill Taking Among Hispanic Women In The United States, Joseph W. Brown, Antonia M. Villarruel, Deborah Oakley, Carmen Eribes

Peer Reviewed Articles

Data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth have previously shown greater risk of inconsistent contraceptive pill use among Hispanic women. We used the same data to test a culturally based model of pill use among the sub-sample of Hispanic women. Hierarchical logit analyses revealed that primary use of Spanish, negative attitudes about women in the workplace, two or more recent sex partners, and recent pill adoption were factors that increased the odds of inconsistent use. Living alone or with non-kin was associated with more consistent use, as were showing preference for a stay-at-home model of motherhood, frequent church …

Developing Efficient Technique In Beginning Piano Students, Fen-Fang Chen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Theology And Religious Studies In Post-Communist Ukraine: Historical Sources, Modern Status, And Perspectives Of Cooperation, Lyudmyla Filipovych, Anatoly M. Kolodny

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Compensation And Revenge, Emily Sherwin

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Charles Villiers Stanford, By Paul Rodmell (Review), Julian Onderdonk

Music Theory, History & Composition Faculty Publications & Performances

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Vol. 22, No. 2, December 2003

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Cultural Commentary: Bridgewater Students Look At Language, Barbara Apstein

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, December 2003

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Subversive Fun, Charles F. Angell

Bridgewater Review

Book reviews of:

• Al Franken, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
• Michael Moore, Stupid White Men
• Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, Bushwacked: Life in George W. Bush's America

Bridgewater-In-Lucca: A Summer Tour-Of-Study In Italy, Luci Fortunato Delisle

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Kumho Tire And Expert Reliability: How The Question You Ask Gives The Answer You Get, Mark P. Denbeaux, D. Michael Risinger

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Expert Information And Expert Evidence: A Preliminary Taxonomy, Samuel R. Gross, Jennifer L. Mnookin

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Systemic Investigation: Developing A Guide To North Dakota Legal Research For The Educator And Citizen, Rhonda R. Schwartz

Theses and Dissertations

Educators and citizens in North Dakota often need to research North Dakota law. They need to research primary authority materials (e.g., the North Dakota Constitution, the North Dakota Supreme Court opinions, the North Dakota Century Code, the North Dakota Administrative Code). Educators and citizens also need to utilize secondary authority materials that help them locate, update, explain or interpret the law (e.g., digests, citators, law reviews or treatises). There is no guide for North Dakota legal research materials that serves to help the educator or citizen in these research efforts.

The following methodology was used to produce a guide for …

La Voz De Kultrun En La Modernidad: Tradición Y Cambio En La Terapéutica De Siete Machi Mapuche (The Kultrun’S Voice In Modernity: Tradition And Change In The Therapeutics Of Seven Mapuche Machi), Marcelo Fiorini

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Book review of La Voz de Kultrun en la Modernidad: Tradición y Cambio en la Terapéutica de Siete Machi Mapuche (The Kultrun’s Voice in Modernity: Tradition and Change in the Therapeutics of Seven Mapuche Machi). Ana Mariella Bacigalupo. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2001. 271 pp. ISBN 956-14-0623-2

Transparency And Spreading Of Tense, Aspect, And Mood In Kuche Narrative Discourse, Janet E. Wilson

Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive

Though clauses of Kuche can be grammatically marked—usually by verb prefixes or auxiliary verbs—for tense and/or aspect and/or mood (TAM), in discourse, very few clauses are actually marked for these categories. Instead, TAM is often marked only once in a stretch of text and is assumed to apply to every subsequent clause up to a delimiting construction. This paper describes how certain grammatical indicators of TAM are used in Kuche narrative discourse. Four chapters of an oral history and one folk tale are tabulated for the frequency of various TAM markings and interpretations. Number grids and bar graphs indicate how …

Law, Religion And Non-Whites In Colonial Louisiana, Holly Heatley

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Tests For Significance On Selected Variables In The Transition To Middle School Of Sixth Grade Teachers Having More Or Less Middle Level Training, Marilyn Iverson Delmore

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Paper For An Educational Digital Library, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Yin-Leng Theng, Ming Yin, Ee Peng Lim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

GeogDL is a digital library of geography examination resources designed to assist students in revising for a national geography examination in Singapore. As part of an iterative design process, we carried out participatory design and brainstorming with student and teacher design partners. The first study involved prospective student design partners. In response to the first study, we describe in this paper an implementation of PAPER – Personalised Adaptive Pathways for Exam Resources – a new bundle of personalized, interactive services containing a mock exam and a personal coach. The mock exam provides a simulation of the actual geography examination while …

Assessing The Cultural Dimensions Of The Los Niños Bien Educados Parenting Program, Henry J. Ortiz, Scott W. Plunkett

Journal of Extension

A focus group evaluation was conducted on the Los Niños Bien Educados parenting course to investigate how a cultural frame of reference used in parenting classes for Latinos affects the experiences of the parents who attend them. The findings suggested that a cultural frame of reference in parenting courses for Latinos results in increased motivation to continue attending the classes, stronger connection to the course and information, improved parent-child relationships, improvement in cultural adjustment to the U.S., and improved learning of parenting skills.

The Eu And The Non-Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons: The Way To Thessaloniki And Beyond, Clara Portela

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This paper discusses EU policies against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The author states that at the beginning of the century, the EU began taking steps against the spread of nuclear weapons within its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). In June 2003, the European Council adopted its first draft strategy against the proliferation of WMDs. In order to assess the significance of the strategy, the paper presents and evaluates the Union’s record in the field, reviews the strategy and makes suggestions as to how it can be improved.

Notes From An Eighteenth Century Courtship, Cynthia Booth Ricciardi

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Refiguring Palmares, Richard Price

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

In this methodological/poetical exercise, the author attempts a mind-game in which he reads through the primary and secondary sources on the great seventeenth-century Brazilian quilombo of Palmares, drawing on his knowledge of Maroon societies elsewhere in the Americas, in order to imagine the institutions of that quilombo from their own, rather than outside observers’, perspectives. Using oral testimonies from the descendants of Maroons in Suriname, and comparing them to outsiders’ views of those societies as recorded in archives, he tries to better evoke the cultural institutions that would have existed in Palmares.

Dans cet essai, à la fois méthodolgique et …

Religion In Estonia, Research In English, Janis Cakars

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

Estonian is one such understudied language, but Estonia is of no smaller importance to Eastern Europe than any other country. To understand the whole, all the parts must be considered. Therefore, scholars without a command of Estonian by necessity must turn to work published in other languages, most commonly English. This article is meant to serve as an aid to those interested in religion in Eastern Europe without a command of Estonian. It provides a bibliographical and historiographical review of the literature within an outline of religious development in a less commonly studied country. The religious history of Estonia, although …

Mongolia: Religious Freedom Oasis?, Geraldine Fagan

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Ofheo Freddie Mac Special Report Of Annual Examination, United States: Office Of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (Ofheo)

Documents

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Hummingbird Size, Pollen Load And Pollination Efficiency, December 2003, Andrew Gapinski

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Pollinators are an important selective agent and play a role in the evolution of certain floral characteristics (Fenster, 1991). This is often the case with flower corollas, which have closely coevolved with the length and curvature of the bill or tongue of its pollinators (Stiles 1989) The purpose of this study was to determine the specificity of the coevolution between hummingbirds as pollinators and the species on which they forage. I also hope to examine the bill length- body size relationship, pollen loads and their placements. I hypothesize that short-billed hummingbirds will carry pollen from plant species with short corollas, …