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Lacan And The Discourse Of Science In Law, David S. Caudill Aug 2003

Lacan And The Discourse Of Science In Law, David S. Caudill

Cardozo Law Review

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It Competency And Firm Performance: Is Organizational Learning A Missing Link?, Michael J. Tippins, Ravipreet S. Sohi Aug 2003

It Competency And Firm Performance: Is Organizational Learning A Missing Link?, Michael J. Tippins, Ravipreet S. Sohi

Department of Marketing: Faculty Publications

Many companies have developed strategies that include investing heavily in information technology (IT) in order to enhance their performance. Yet, this investment pays off for some companies but not others. This study proposes that organization teaming plays a significant role in determining the outcomes of IT. Drawing from resource theory and IT literature, the authors develop the concept of IT competency. Using structural equations modeling with data collected from managers in 271 manufacturing firms, they show that organizational learning plays a significant role in mediating the effects of IT competency on firm performance.

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Technology And Time, Jon Vanwieren Aug 2003

Technology And Time, Jon Vanwieren

Masters Theses

This thesis sets out to further reveal the technology and time interrelationship in human society. It is through an investigation of an array of sociological, theoretical, philosophical, historical and artistic responses to modernity that this relationship is explored. Primary analytic focus is placed on two contemporary authors who have addressed the technology and time relationship. These authors are Manuel Castells and Paul Virilio. Castells and Virilio offer two distinct portraits of the modem-technological world. By contrasting these authors' projects, methods and intellectual heritage, the question of technology and time is further scrutinized. Advanced here is an argument that time is …

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Corporate And Individual Influences On Managers' Social Orientation, Joachim W. Marz, Thomas L. Powers, Thomas Queisser Aug 2003

Corporate And Individual Influences On Managers' Social Orientation, Joachim W. Marz, Thomas L. Powers, Thomas Queisser

WCBT Faculty Publications

This paper reports research on the influence of corporate and individual characteristics on managers' social orientation in Germany. The results indicate that mid-level managers expressed a significantly lower social orientation than low-level managers, and that job activity did not impact social orientation. Female respondents expressed a higher social orientation than male respondents. No impact of the political system origin (former East Germany versus former West Germany) on social orientation was shown. Overall, corporate position had a significantly higher impact on social orientation than did the characteristics of the individuals surveyed.

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Inside Unlv, Gian Galassi, Carol C. Harter, Gale Sinatra Aug 2003

Inside Unlv, Gian Galassi, Carol C. Harter, Gale Sinatra

Inside UNLV

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International Mediation And Capitulation To The Routine, Leo F. Smyth Aug 2003

International Mediation And Capitulation To The Routine, Leo F. Smyth

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

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Fighting Capitulation: A Research Agenda For The Future Of Dispute Resolution, Gregory Todd Jones Aug 2003

Fighting Capitulation: A Research Agenda For The Future Of Dispute Resolution, Gregory Todd Jones

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

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Let's Put Ourselves Out Of Business: On Respect, Responsibility, And Dialogue In Dispute Resolution, Jonathan R. Cohen Aug 2003

Let's Put Ourselves Out Of Business: On Respect, Responsibility, And Dialogue In Dispute Resolution, Jonathan R. Cohen

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

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After The Fall…: Capitulating To The Routine In Professional Work, Robert Dingwall, Kerry Kidd Aug 2003

After The Fall…: Capitulating To The Routine In Professional Work, Robert Dingwall, Kerry Kidd

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

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Where Have You Gone, John Dewey?: Locating The Challenge To Continue And The Challenge To Grow As A Profession, Dorothy H. Evensen, Patrick Shannon, Jacqueline Edmondson Aug 2003

Where Have You Gone, John Dewey?: Locating The Challenge To Continue And The Challenge To Grow As A Profession, Dorothy H. Evensen, Patrick Shannon, Jacqueline Edmondson

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

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Interdisciplinary Collaboration And The Beauty Of Surprise: A Symposium Introduction, Robert M. Ackerman, Nancy A. Welsh Aug 2003

Interdisciplinary Collaboration And The Beauty Of Surprise: A Symposium Introduction, Robert M. Ackerman, Nancy A. Welsh

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

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August 2003 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University Aug 2003

August 2003 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

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The Role Of Religions And Religious Communities In The Wars In Ex-Yugoslavia 1991-1999, Dr. Mitja Velikonja Aug 2003

The Role Of Religions And Religious Communities In The Wars In Ex-Yugoslavia 1991-1999, Dr. Mitja Velikonja

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Why Europe Rejected American Judicial Review - And Why It May Not Matter, Alec Stone Sweet Aug 2003

Why Europe Rejected American Judicial Review - And Why It May Not Matter, Alec Stone Sweet

Michigan Law Review

In this Article, I explore the question of why constitutional review, but not American judicial review, spread across Europe. I will also argue that, despite obvious organic differences between the American and European systems of review, there is an increasing convergence in how review actually operates. I proceed as follows. In Part I, I examine the debate on establishing judicial review in Europe, focusing on the French. In Parts II and III, I contrast the European and the American models of review, and briefly discuss why the Kelsenian constitutional court diffused across Europe. In Part IV, I argue that despite …

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Family: Variations And Changes Across Cultures, James Georgas Aug 2003

Family: Variations And Changes Across Cultures, James Georgas

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

In order to study psychological phenomena cross-culturally, it is necessary to understand the different types of family in cultures throughout the world and also how family types are related to cultural features of societies. This article discusses: The definitions and the structure and functions of family; the different family types and relationships with kin; the ecocultural determinants of variations of family types, e.g, ecological features, means of subsistence, political and legal system, education and religion; changes in family in different cultures; the influence of modernization and globalization on family change throughout the world.

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Kula And The Trobriand Islands: The Meaning And Power Of Objects, Becky Tomlinson Aug 2003

Kula And The Trobriand Islands: The Meaning And Power Of Objects, Becky Tomlinson

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Just as a word in a foreign language must be interpreted for one who does not speak the language, a cultural artifact alone holds no significance or meaning for an outsider. Thus, for an object to be understood it cannot stand alone, but must be placed in context though time and space, and various layers of cultural meaning must be expounded. The word lagim, from the Kiriwina language, may be roughly translated as meaning "the splashboard of a Kula canoe". This translation may give the proper words from English that denote the object, but it still leaves much to …

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Battered Women Whose Cases Have Gone Through The System: The Role Of Social Support, Heather Melton, Joanne Belknap, Cris Sullivan, Ruth Fleury-Steiner, Amy Leisenring Aug 2003

Battered Women Whose Cases Have Gone Through The System: The Role Of Social Support, Heather Melton, Joanne Belknap, Cris Sullivan, Ruth Fleury-Steiner, Amy Leisenring

Faculty Publications, Sociology

This paper explores the role of social support in the lives of battered women whose cases have gone through the criminal justice system. Using longitudinal data collected from almost 200 battered women whose cases went through the criminal justice system in three jurisdictions in the United States, explored are the types of support they received, variations in who receives support, differences between informal support and formal support, and the implications of social support in terms of violence and victims use of the criminal justice system.

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Summer Commencement Ceremony, University Of North Florida Aug 2003

Summer Commencement Ceremony, University Of North Florida

Commencement Printed Materials

Program for the Summer Commencement Ceremonies held at the UNF Arena.

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Treatment Outcome For Male Adolescents In Residential Placement, Taji Tortorello Aug 2003

Treatment Outcome For Male Adolescents In Residential Placement, Taji Tortorello

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of the study was to assess archival data to determine what variables are related to successful discharge from a residential treatment program for adolescents with behavioral disorders. The records of 120 residents of a Northern Virginia residential treatment program were reviewed from January 1999 to January 2001. The researcher was interested in determining what predictor variables, such as: intake demographic and intake assessments relate to outcome, such as: discharge assessments, discharge planning, and discharge GPA. Results indicated that students who are successfully discharged from this program at intake are typically: (1) older, (2) less oppositional, (3) engage in …

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A Model Of Group Sundering: The Impact Of Communication, Shannon Michel Clements Aug 2003

A Model Of Group Sundering: The Impact Of Communication, Shannon Michel Clements

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A theoretical framework is presented addressing the way in which communication affects cohesion among group members and how this, in tum, impacts group splitting. Participants will be given a membership packet from a fictional group entitled Student Advocates for Al.c ohol Guidelines (SAAG). They were asked to imagine they were members of the fictional group for the duration of the study. During this time, they wrote notes regarding information in the membership packet and answered questions regarding their willingness to remain a member of this group. The two manipulations across conditions were (1) whether or not participants read the notes …

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A Study Of The Deputies Of The 21st Grand National Assembly Of Turkey, Abdullah Yuvaci Aug 2003

A Study Of The Deputies Of The 21st Grand National Assembly Of Turkey, Abdullah Yuvaci

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this paper, I study the Turkish political elite in terms of their social background and the legislative behavior. The study examines occupational, educational, and local birth connection status of the members of the 21 st term Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) serving between 1999 and 2002. The study compares the parliamentary elites across the ideological inclinations and the demographical divisions of their constituencies. In terms of legislative behavior, I use questioning behaviors as a behavioral indicator for the 21st term TGNA members. I obtained the data from the Grand National Assembly official website. The website contains information concerning the …

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The New Adult Education: Bringing Peer Educators Up To Speed, Nancy Grudens-Schuck, Julianne Cramer, Derrick Exner, Mark Shour Aug 2003

The New Adult Education: Bringing Peer Educators Up To Speed, Nancy Grudens-Schuck, Julianne Cramer, Derrick Exner, Mark Shour

Journal of Extension

Stereotypes about peer educators (farmers teaching farmers, parent teaching parents) may get in Extension's way. Problems occur particularly when it is believed that peer educators' "natural" abilities are what make them great. This article provides an alternative view of peer educators, with a focus on ways to increase the educational skills of this important Extension partner. The article summarizes a new approach to adult education (constructivist and transformative) that was introduced to peer educators in Iowa (farmer cooperators and pesticide applicator educators) through workshops and support materials. The article also discusses challenges associated with adoption of new forms of adult …

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Watershed Stewardship Education Program--A Multidisciplinary Extension Education Program For Oregon's Watershed Councils, Flaxen Dl Conway, Derek Godwin, Mike Cloughesy, Tara Nierenberg Aug 2003

Watershed Stewardship Education Program--A Multidisciplinary Extension Education Program For Oregon's Watershed Councils, Flaxen Dl Conway, Derek Godwin, Mike Cloughesy, Tara Nierenberg

Journal of Extension

The Watershed Stewardship Education Program (WSEP) is an innovative, multi-disciplinary program in the Oregon State University Extension Service. Through educational materials and programs, WSEP helps watershed councils, landowners, and others work effectively together to understand multiple components of their watersheds and apply this knowledge to assessments, project development, and water quality and habitat monitoring. This article documents the need for and the development of this innovative educational program and discusses implications for Extension, including the necessity of multi-disciplinary programming and working with non-traditional audiences.

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The "Most Valuable Sort Of Property": Constructing White Identity In American Law, 1880-1940, J. Allen Douglas Aug 2003

The "Most Valuable Sort Of Property": Constructing White Identity In American Law, 1880-1940, J. Allen Douglas

San Diego Law Review

This Article examines the manner in which southern courts labored to instill the legal meaning of whiteness as an object of property inherent in the individual in cases involving racial defamation, miscegenation, and writs of mandamus to white-only schools during the decades following Plessy. The author starts by discussing Plessy and the argument that the reputation of being white was itself a property interest that deserved legal protection from being taken away from the individual by the community. Although this argument did not succeed in Plessy, the author goes on to discuss how a new property regime began to develop …

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The Somewhat Flawed Theoretical Foundation Of The Extension Service, Garry Stephenson Aug 2003

The Somewhat Flawed Theoretical Foundation Of The Extension Service, Garry Stephenson

Journal of Extension

Innovation diffusion theory is the foundation of Extension agriculture outreach methods. The theory predicts that an innovation will initially be adopted by a small group of innovative farmers and later diffused to other farmers. Over the past 30 years, the theory has been criticized for favoring large wealthy farmers and increasing the inequities in rural areas. By utilizing innovation diffusion theory, have we caused harm to the population we serve? Because this theory has such an influence on our approach to outreach, why haven't we kept up with developments in the evolution of this theory? What can we change to …

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Changing Structure Of The Arms Trade: A Social Network Analysis, David Todd Kinsella Aug 2003

Changing Structure Of The Arms Trade: A Social Network Analysis, David Todd Kinsella

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

The global arms trade should be understood not as a market but as a network, one that shares some important properties with networked forms of organization studied by sociologists. I make this argument and then employ quantitative methods developed for social network analysis in an effort to describe the evolving structure of the arms trade network since the end of World War II. That structure has changed significantly over the past fifty years. It became less dense in the early years of the cold war as newly independent states joined the society of states, but had yet to develop many …

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Next-Of-Kin Perceptions Of Physician Responsiveness To Symptoms Of Hospitalized Patients Near Death, Joel C. Cantor, Jan Blustein, Matthew J. Carlson, David A. Gould Aug 2003

Next-Of-Kin Perceptions Of Physician Responsiveness To Symptoms Of Hospitalized Patients Near Death, Joel C. Cantor, Jan Blustein, Matthew J. Carlson, David A. Gould

Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Many different medical providers visit critically ill patients during a hospitalization, and patients and family members may not feel any physician is truly in charge of care. This study explores whether perceiving that a physician was clearly in charge is associated with reports by surviving next of kin about the responsiveness of physicians to symptoms in hospitalized patients near the end of life. We conducted telephone interviews with surviving next of kin of adult patients (n = 1107) who died in one of five New York City teaching hospitals between April 1998 and June 1999 after a minimum 3-day inpatient …

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Hautian Houses Of Ill-Fame: A Midwestern City's Confrontation With Vice, 1910-1972, Laura E. C. Bergstrom Aug 2003

Hautian Houses Of Ill-Fame: A Midwestern City's Confrontation With Vice, 1910-1972, Laura E. C. Bergstrom

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Second Great Awakening spurred the moral reform campaign dealing with prostitution in the United States. In the nineteenth century as public areas were being segregated specifically for prostitution anti-vice reformers engaged in a discourse over the allocation of what historian Mary P. Ryan calls "public space." Beginning with the Progressive Era and the onset of the white slave trade, reformers shifted their attention from the regulation to the abolition of prostitution. Social hygiene and sex education became a part of the reform dialogue. Most major cities of this time eradicated the officially sanctioned Red Light District. However, the mid-western …

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Emotion Representation And Perception Across Cultures, Jeanette Altarriba, Dana M. Basnight, Tina M. Canary Aug 2003

Emotion Representation And Perception Across Cultures, Jeanette Altarriba, Dana M. Basnight, Tina M. Canary

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

Are emotion words or emotion categories universal, or are particular emotions and emotion categories specific to certain cultures? The current review explores the answer to this question by summarizing the limited number of studies that have addressed this issue. The representation of emotion is discussed with regards to verbal and nonverbal (facial) processing, in turn. The evidence indicates that the answer is often conflicting and that issues such as methodological, linguistic, social and cultural variance have contributed to the often contradictory findings.

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Faculty Senate Senate Membership, 2003-2004, Vol 31, P 7, Unm Faculty Senate Aug 2003

Faculty Senate Senate Membership, 2003-2004, Vol 31, P 7, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

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