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Latcritical Encounters With Culture, In North-South Frameworks, Pedro A. Malavet

UF Law Faculty Publications

A critical introduction of a group of articles in the LatCrit VI Symposium issue, discussing the authors' diverse approaches to Latin American legal cultures and contextualizing the publications in the growing body of LatCrit scholarship. The Essay discusses how the other essays in the issue fit within or challenge the themes of the specific roundtable, plenary, or workshop in which they were presented, and then locates the cluster within the present and the future of LatCrit Theory generally, and LatCritical praxi in particular. This Essay addresses each presentation, the specific conference context(s) in which it was delivered, and how the …

Thirty Endangered Languages In The Philippines, Thomas N. Headland

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

There are 6,809 languages spoken in the world today. Conservative estimates are that the world's languages are currently dying at the rate of at least two languages each month, and linguists predict that most of today's languages will die out in the next 100 years. Since 1962, the author has been gathering field data on some of the smallest language groups in the world-the Philippine Negritos. This paper will explain why the thirty-plus Negrito languages in the Philippines are endangered, and what the projected future is for these numerically tiny post-foraging societies in the 21st century. The argument will be …

Lexical Comparisons Of Signed Languages And The Effects Of Iconicity, Stephen J. Parkhurst, Dianne Parkhurst

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

Lexical comparisons of signed languages present new methodological challenges not found in comparisons of spoken languages. Two standards for comparing wordlists are examined using a sample of four European sign languages that are not known to be related to each other and a second sample of different dialects of the signed languages of Spain. The use of different standards is shown to affect the numerical results; comparing signs on the basis of probable historical relatedness typically yields percentages that are 5-10% greater than comparisons on the basis of similarity. The amount of iconicity inherent in signed languages affects the wordlist …

Loss, Anger, And Acceptance In Four Plays By Tennessee Williams, Christopher A. Haake

Theses and Dissertations

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Comparison Of Education Level, Intelligence Quotient, And Higher Education Courses Of Individuals Who Commit Violent Crimes And Those Individuals Who Commit Nonviolent Crimes In Arkansas, W. Andranette Anderson-Blackwell

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine and compare education levels, intelligence quotients, and college courses taken or are being taken by criminal offenders who commit violent versus nonviolent crimes. One hundred males and 100 females from the states' correctional facilities were used as the sample. The sample was stratified according to four characteristics: type of crime committed (violent or nonviolent), ethnicity, age, and gender. The null hypothesis tested in this study was that there is no statistically significant difference, at the 0.05 level, in the educational levels or intelligence quotients of criminal offenders as to age, ethnicity, gender, …

A Study Of Arkansas Public School Alternative Language Program Coordinators' Knowledge Of The Legal And Evaluation Requirements For The Alternative Language Program, Karen E. Broadnax

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine public school Alternative Language Program coordinators' knowledge of the legal and evaluation requirements for Alternative Language Programs in the state of Arkansas. Their current knowledge was investigated in this study. A non-experimental research design was used for this causal-comparative study. The survey instrument used was developed by the researcher and it included all of the 138 Alternative Language Program coordinators in Arkansas, except the researcher. A non-probability sample of 90 coordinators completed and returned the survey at a return rate of 65.7 percent. Part I of the survey was used to collect …

Towards A Sociological Understanding Of Irish Travellers: Introducing A People, Niall C. Mcelwee, Ashling Jackson, Grant Charles

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

This paper is one in a series of three papers viewing aspects of native cultures and, in this instance, will primarily define the Traveller population in Ireland, give a brief history of this population whilst discussing racism and some of its implications. There will be a particular focus on current systems of health, education and child protection in order to determine Traveller experiences of these key child and youth care related service providers in Ireland. The second paper will focus upon an examination of the experiences of aboriginal people in Canada. It will have a particular emphasis upon the marginization …

Empire's Law (The Earl A. Snyder Lecture In International Law), Susan Marks

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

On March 7, 2002, Professor Marks delivered the sixth annual Snyder Lecture at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.

The Suppression Of Diversity, Adrian J. Lottie, Phyllis A. Clemens Noda

Ethnic Studies Review

Is it a systematic strategy or a mutation of millennial ferver that drives the escalating challenges to the civil rights of this nation's racial, linguistic, and national origin minorities? Increasing juridical, legislative, and popular assaults on affirmative action policies coupled with the sometimes less heralded emergence of a de facto U.S. language policy are sweeping through the states. These activities draw on a consistent repertoire of approaches from the invocation of the very language and concepts of the civil rights movement to the isolationist "buzz-words" of early twentieth century advocates of "Americanization." In an effort to legitimize their efforts this …

The Emergence Of Democratic Participation In Global Governance, Steve Charnovitz

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Globalization and Governance: The Prospects for Democracy, Symposium

Florida Institute Of Technology Catalog 2003-2004, Florida Institute Of Technology

Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne and Jensen Beach Catalogs, 1967-2015

Academic catalog by Florida Institute of Technology for the 2003-2004 academic year.

Florida Institute Of Technology Catalog 2004-2005, Florida Institute Of Technology

Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne and Jensen Beach Catalogs, 1967-2015

Academic catalog by Florida Institute of Technology for the 2004-2005 academic year.

Activities For Differentiated Instruction Addressing All Levels Of Bloom's Taxonomy And Eight Multiple Intelligences, Audrey C. Rule, L. H. Lord

Open Educational Resources

This manuscript contains 13 curriculum units designed to enhance differentiated instruction for learners with special needs from grades 1-12, including gifted students. It integrates Benjamin S. Bloom's levels of cognitive understanding with Howard Gardner's eight domains of intelligence to provide a framework for individualized instruction. Each unit has activities for the eight multiple intelligences (logical-mathematical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, spatial intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, and naturalistic intelligence) at each of Bloom's taxonomic levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The manuscript begins by explaining Bloom's and Gardner's contributions to educational research in the area of …

Mobilizing Immigrants, Jayanth K. Krishnan

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Mcnair Research Journal

Georgia Southern University McNair Scholars Journal (Archived)

Full issue of the Georgia Southern University McNair Journal presented by the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program at Georgia Southern University.

• Understanding Charter Schools: An Alternative Education Program for Students Quail T. Arnold; Dorothy A. Battle, PhD.
• The Reality of Aversive Racism Christina Clarke; Jerome Steffen PhD.
• Where Did the Water Go? An Experimental Look into the Light Path of a Mirage Lisa DeBeer; Mark Edwards, PhD.

• Minorities As The Majority: The Overrepresentation of African American Students in Special Education Penny Teachy-Gary; Rosemari Stallworth-Clark PhD.

• Wireless Sensor Tracking Network-TinyOS

• Perceptions of Rape

• Low Income Rural Women and Non-Compliance to …

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No. 2 - The Dean Rusk Lectures At The Dean Rusk Center, Eric Stein, Louis Henkin, Abiodun Williams, Manuel Medina Ortega, Gabriel M. Wilner

Occasional Papers Series

The papers delivered by the four distinguished scholars form the content of this second Dean Rusk Center Occasional Paper. Issues of legitimacy-democracy in the activities of integrated international and supranational organizations are dealt with in the first paper by Professor Eric Stein. Professor Louis Henkin offers incisive comparisons and contrasts on the nature and sources of human rights in international law and rights under the Constitution of the United States. The central role of the United Nations in peace operations is explained in the paper by Mr. Abiodun Williams, the director of strategic planning for the office of the Secretary-General …

Home On The Range: Family And Constitutionalism In American Continental Settlement, Mark E. Brandon

Articles

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The Role Of Prefrontal Theta Reset In Learning And Memory, Stephen W. Smith '03

Honors Projects

Theta reset, in which the rhythmic firing of neurons stops and then restarts to the onset of a stimulus, is believed to improve encoding and retrieval of stimuli by causing stimuli to be time-locked to waves of depolarization in the HPC. Recent research by Williams et al. (in preparation) has demonstrated that, in rats, theta reset occurs 1) in several cortical areas including the anterior cingulate (AC), 2) occurs during different phases of a working memory task for different cortical areas, and 3) can be predictive of working memory task performance. In the current study, human participants received EEG recording …

Silent Witness: Discrimination Against Women In The Pakistani Law Of Evidence, Perry S. Smith

Law Student Scholarship

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An Observation Checklist For Facility-Based Normal Labor And Delivery Practices: The Galaa Study, Hania Sholkamy, Nevine Hassanein, Mohamed Cherine, Amr Elnoury, Miral Breebaart, Karima Khalil

Reproductive Health

Globally, almost 515,000 women die every year from maternal causes related to pregnancy or childbirth. Most research focuses on identifying high-risk cases or managing obstetric emergencies, in an attempt to reduce women’s risk of dying of maternal causes. While facility practices for normal labor were extensively examined and revised in Europe and North America in the 1970s and 1980s, little is known about facility practices for normal labor in many parts of the developing world. It is important for practitioners and policymakers to know the nature and frequency of common facility practices for normal labor. Substandard care has been identified …

Evidence-Based Development Of Health And Family Planning Programs In Bangladesh And Ghana, James F. Phillips, Tanya C. Jones, Frank K. Nyonator, Shruti Ravikumar

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper describes two initiatives that have used experimental studies to guide the development of community-based health and family planning programs. In Bangladesh and Ghana, factorial experiments were implemented in stages. An exploratory phase developed a service system for community-based health care; an experimental phase assessed the demographic impact of the system; a replication phase examined the transferability of the experimental program to a non-research setting; and a scaling-up phase facilitated the extension of the new system to the national health care program. All stages were guided by research, with questions, mechanisms, and outcomes shifting as the process developed. Large-scale …

Table Of Contents, Vol. 81, No. 4

Nebraska Law Review

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Conflicts Between American & (And) Foreign Law: Does The Balance Of The Interests Test Always Equal America's Interests, Frank C. Razzano

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Reliability And The Admissibility Of Experts, Dale A. Nance

Faculty Publications

Modern law on expert testimony insists, as a condition of admissibility, that the asserted expertise be determined by the trial judge to be reliable. Reliability is usually characterized as a dichotomous attribute of evidence, as if expertise were either reliable or unreliable. This article argues that making progress in the development of meaningful and appropriate restrictions on the admissibility of expert testimony requires that we abandon this conceptualization and understand the implications of endorsing a gradational notion of reliability in which evidence can be more or less reliable and in which a comparative assessment of reliability is prominent. Consistent with …

Toponyms In The Western Region Of Thailand, Sujaritlak Deepadung

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Village names or toponyms in the Western region of Thailand, i.e. Kanchanaburi, Nakorn Pathom, Ratchaburi, Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Samust songkhram, samut Sakorn and Suphan Buri, in this study are drawn from a complete list of names in Thamniap Thongthii 2535 BC (Provincial Records 1992). The aim of this study are: 1) to analyse the linguistic structure of Thai village names 2) to set up dimensions for the semantics features of the village names in the western region of Thailand and 3) to make a frequency count of the general names which are the first morpheme of a name. The …

Aspect In East And Mainland Southeast Asian Languages-A First Step, Walter Bisang

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

The present paper has two intentions. It wants to sketch a typological basis for describing aspect in individual languages and for cross-linguistic comparison and it wants to present some first ideas of how aspect works in languages of East and mainland Southeast Asia. Aspect will be defined in terms of a "selection theory of aspect". Thus, aspect markers are understood as operators that select matching temporal phases provided by the temporal boundaries as they are determined (a) in the lexicon of verbs or (b) in additional, overt structures such as resultative verbs, markers of Aktionsart, quantified noun phrases and adverbials. …

Linguistic Landscapes Of Bangkok, Thom Huebner

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

The effects of globalization of the world economy on English, now the dominant world language, has been well documented. While increasing attention has been paid to its changing form and to issues of identity and power (Phillipson 1992, Pennycook 1994, 1998, Fishman et al. 1996, McArthur 1998, Bex and Watts 1999, etc.), less attention has been paid to the effects of globalization on the use of other languages for wider communication, particularly in large cosmopolitan urban areas in expanding circle countries. The current paper examines over 600 signs found in fifteen Bangkok "neighborhoods" to explore how the use of language …

Glass Trade Beads Among The Early Historic Chickasaw, Donna Jean Courtney Rausch

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Wading Into Professor Schneider’S "Murky Middle Ground" Between Acceptance And Rejection Of Criminal Justice Responses To Domestic Violence, Holly Maguigan

Faculty Articles

In Engaging with the State, a chapter in the remarkable history, analysis, and vision that is her book Battered Women & Feminist Lawmaking, Professor Elizabeth M. Schneider writes, " [w]ith both mandatory arrest legislation and VAWA [the Violence Against Women Act of 1994], familiar tensions are replicated- public and private, victimization and agency- which reemerge in the process of enforcement and raise questions concerning the potential utility and effectiveness of these statutes." She challenges the reader to "understand the roles of the state, other institutions, law, and culture in encouraging, legitimizing, and perpetuating violence" and "to critically examine the murky …

The "Necessary" History Of Property And Liberty, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

In this Foreword I wish to look at the question of takings and economic liberties from what I like to call, only half-facetiously, "necessary history." The purpose of this exercise is to show that there are certain powerful principles to which any conscientious application of constitutional discourse or doctrine must turn if it is to meet the minimum standards of intellectual coherence and practical common sense. In my view, this form of history is not clause-bound in any strict sense of the term, but rather rests on the broader considerations of the proper relationship between an individual and the state, …