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Immigration And The Allure Of Inclusion, Ediberto Roman

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

When Harry Met Lawrence: Allowing Gays And Lesbians To Adopt, Nicole M. Shkedi

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Integrating Visual Thinking Strategies Into A Discipline Based Art Education Curriculum, Amanda Mcknight

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

"Kulturkampf(S)" Or "Fit(S) Of Spite"?: Taking The Academic Culture Wars Seriously, Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bgs 2985 : Adults In Transition, General Studies

Approved Course Proposals

No abstract provided.

2005 Annual Report, Children's Advocacy Institute, University Of San Diego School Of Law

CAI Annual Reports

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Co-Wife Conflict And Cooperation, William R. Jankowiak, Monika Sudakov, Benjamin C. Wilreker

Anthropology Faculty Research

Conventional wisdom holds that the polygynous family system is as sexually and emotionally satisfying as a monogamous one. Ethnographic accounts of 69 polygynous systems, however, provide compelling evidence that the majority of co-wives in a polygynous family prefer pragmatic co-operation with one another while maintaining a respectful distance. Moreover, there often is a deep-seated feeling of angst that arises over competing for access to their mutual husband. Co-wife conflict in the early years of marriage is pervasive, and often marked by outbursts of verbal or physical violence. Co-wife conflict may be mitigated by social institutions, such as sororal polygyny and …

Justice And Jesuit Legal Education: A Critique, John M. Breen

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

Beyond Presumptions And Peafowl: Reconciling The Legal Principle Of Equality With The Pedagogical Benefits Of Gender Differentiation, Michael J. Kaufman

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

The European View Of American Justice, Allen E. Shoenberger

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

State Of Utah, Petitioner V. The Honorable Stephen L. Henriod, Respondent, ; Greg Jonas, Real Party In Interest.: Reply Brief, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

STATE OF UTAH, Petitioner v. THE HONORABLE STEPHEN L. HENRIOD, Respondent, GREG JONAS, Real Party in Interest. Case No. 20050311-SC

Docket No. 20050311

Reply Brief

Essay: Organizational Barriers To Creativity In Law Schools And The Legal Profession, Katharine Rosenberry

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

Fit To Be Tied : Masculinity Versus Femininity In Women's Dress, Social Context, And Perceptions Of Power In Women, Melissa D. Talley

Honors Capstones

Previous studies have examined power associations with women’s business dress but little work has been directed toward the study of perceptions of power in conjunction with clothing for other social contexts. This study explores the association between masculine versus feminine styling in women’s dress and perceptions of power in women for professional business, formal social, and casual social contexts. A questionnaire was administered via a PowerPoint slide presentation to 57 university students. Subjects responded to 15 color photographic images of women dressed in outfits appropriate for the three social contexts with five images representing each context. Instrument items consisted of …

Rhetorical Questions Concerning Justice And Equality In Educational Opportunities, Michael J. Kaufman

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

Capitalizing Adolescence: Juvenile Offenders On Death Row, Mary Berkheiser

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

Survey Research On Little Or No Budget: Practical Tips And Advice For Using The Internet To Conduct Surveys, Colleen T. Boff, Kris Johnson

University Libraries Faculty Publications

The Internet is a medium that can be used to streamline the process of conducting survey research and offers advantages over traditional survey mediums like the face-to-face interview, telephone interview, and paper-based survey. Among the advantages are the potential for quick response rates via Web forms or e-mail, as well as monetary savings related to postage, stationary, or long-distance charges. In this article, we will provide practical tips for using the Internet for survey research as well as advice and lessons learned from our experience using the Internet to conduct a large survey project on little or no budget.

Aesthetics Of Listening: Creating Spaces Of Learning, Lisa Donovan

Educational Studies Dissertations

In this study with 9th-12th grade students in an urban Massachusetts school, I consider the question 'How can theater education develop a sense of voice and identity in adolescents?' Students in a drama class engaged in a variety of performance techniques including: interview theater, improvisation, and pantomime while considering the concept of voice/identity development. They then created an interview based script focused on an issue of their choice: the rules of the school and how they were enforced.... Data collection included video-taped class sessions, interviews with the drama classroom teacher, student peer interviews, and a final focus group session six …

A Needs Assessment Of The Homeless Of Birmingham And Jefferson County, Mark Lagory, Ferris J. Ritchey, Kevin Fitzpatrick, J Irwin

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

The information contained in this report, and summarized here, derives from two data collection activities. One, a point-in-time count of homeless persons in a 24-hour period on January 26-27, 2005 that included a two-page survey of basic demographic information and a needs assessment. Two, an hour-long survey of 161 homeless adults conducted between April 4 and May 25, 2005 providing information on residential and housing histories, duration and causes of homelessness, stressful life events and circumstances, resources, social supports and social capital, mental and physical health, and access to health services.

Prevention Of Child Abuse And Neglect: An Evaluation Of A Home Visitation Parent Aide Program Using Recidivism Data, Jeanette Harder

Social Work Faculty Publications

Objective: The purpose of this research was to examine the secondary and tertiary prevention of child abuse and neglect through an evaluation of the Parent Aide program at the Child Abuse Prevention Center in Dallas, Texas. Method: Using a quasi-experimental, retrospective research design, this project compared abuse recidivism rates for those parents who completed, dropped out, or refused to participate in a home visitation child abuse prevention program. Results: Parents who completed the Parent Aide program had fewer subsequent, substantiated reports to Child Protective Services (CPS) of child abuse or neglect than those parents who refused to participate or dropped …

A Comparison Of School-Based And Community-Based Adherence To Wraparound During Family Planning Meetings, Philip D. Nordness

Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications

Recently a number of studies have begun to examine how the wraparound approach is adhered to during family planning meetings in community-based settings. However, no studies have compared wraparound family planning meetings across community-based and school-based settings. The purpose of this study was to examine adherence to the wraparound approach during family planning meetings across school-based and community-based settings to determine if there is a difference in the participants, domains discussed, and key characteristics of wraparound. Over the course of 9 months, observations were conducted on community-based (N = 85) and school-based (N = 109) wraparound family planning meetings. Results …

Baseline Measures Are Altered In Biomechanical Studies, Nikolaos Stergiou, Melissa Scott

Journal Articles

The purpose of this investigation was to examine if baseline measures are altered between conditions in biomechanical studies and to determine the need for baseline measurements in biomechanics. Ten runners were asked to run at varying speeds and obstacle heights. Baseline measures were acquired between all conditions. Right lower extremity kinematic and kinetic data were collected for all baseline trials and evaluated by both a group and a single subject analysis. The group analysis revealed significant differences between baselines only for the obstacle perturbation. The single subject analysis indicated that baseline measures are altered in a greater degree for kinematics …

Examining The Impact Of Parental Involvement In A Dual Language Program: Implications For Children And Schools, Juan F. Casas, Carey S. Ryan, Lisa Kelly-Vance, Bridget O. Ryalls, Angela Ferguson, Collette Nero

Faculty Books and Monographs

Most native-born, English-speaking Americans – if they understood that developing the native language is good for English and good for longterm academic achievement – would support bilingual education. The problem is, almost none of them have heard the case. They have only heard the disinformation, coming from people who oppose these programs for extraneous (i.e., political) reasons (James Crawford, 1999).

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14, James D. Westwood, Timothy N. Judkins, D. Oleynikov, Nikolaos Stergiou

Faculty Books and Monographs

Chapter, Real-Time Augmented Feedback Benefits Robotic Laparoscopic Training, co-authored by Nicholas Steriou, UNO faculty member.

Machine intelligence will eclipse human intelligence within the next few decades - extrapolating from Moore’s Law - and our world will enjoy limitless computational power and ubiquitous data networks. Today’s iPod® devices portend an era when biology and information technology will fuse to create a human experience radically different from our own. Already, our healthcare system now appears on the verge of crisis; accelerating change is part of the problem. Each technological upgrade demands an investment of education and money, and a costly infrastructure more …

Evaluating The Competing Assumptions Of Gottfredson And Hirschi’S (1990) A General Theory Of Crime And Psychological Explanations Of Agression, Todd A. Armstrong

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) A General Theory of Crime, argues individual criminal propensity manifests itself as a general tendency to engage in a variety of criminal and delinquent acts. In contrast, Psychological explanations of aggression assume that the causal processes explaining individual variation in aggression are somehow different from those explaining other forms of crime and deviance. The current work assessed the relative strength of the assumptions of these two positions by testing the relationships among hostile attributional bias, selfcontrol, and three indicators of criminal intent. Hostile attributional bias is an individual characteristic important in psychological research on social information …

Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: A Retrospective Examination Of Social Skills, Linguistics, And Student Outcomes, John W. Hill, Kathy L. Coufal

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

A language-based social skills instruction intervention used to prepare middle and high school students with emotional/behavioral disorders for return to less restrictive public school placements was evaluated. The daily 50-minute intervention focused on repetitive readings, recitations, and role-playing of skill step procedures until students achieved mastery on each required task in five broad dimensions: peer relations, self-management, academic, compliance, and assertion. The students were divided into three groups according to the length of intervention (under 2 years, 2 to 3 years, and more than 3 years). Dependent t tests were used to test the effects of prolonged intervention on past …

Implementing Handheld Computers As Tools For First-Grade Writers, Wilma Kuhlman, Kathy Everts Danielson, Elizabeth J. Campbell, Neal Topp

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

All humans use objects in their environment as tools for actions. Some tools are more useful than others for certain people and populations. This paper describes how different first-graders used handheld computers as tools when writing. While all 17 children in the observed classroom were competent users of their handheld computers, their use of handhelds for pre-writing differed among the students. Some students’ thinking was clearly enhanced with the use of handhelds before writing. Other students showed writing competence without referring back to their pre-writing work on the handheld. No students were unable to operate their handhelds in the pre-writing …

Graduate Program Requirements (2005-2007), University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Graduate Catalogs

2005-2007 Graduate Program Requirements

Reliability And Validity Of The Behavioral And Emotional Rating Scale-Second Edition: Parent Rating Scale, Paul Mooney, Michael H. Epstein, Gail Ryser, Corey D. Pierce

Faculty Publications

Three studies are reported addressing the test-retest reliability and convergent validity of the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale-Second Edition (BERS-2): Parent Rating Scale (PRS). In the first study, test-retest reliability was investigated over a one-week period to determine the stability of the BERS-2 PRS over time. Reliability coefficients were at or above.80. Convergent validity was assessed as parents completed the PRS and a second measure of perceived child functioning. In the second study, the six BERS-2 PRS subscales and overall strength index were correlated with composite scores from the parent forms of the Social Skills Rating System. Correlations were generally …

Color's Influence On Short-Term Memory In Each Gender, Ryan W. Schroeder

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

This study evaluated links between gender and short-term memory using coloration of three groups of 12 stimuli: numbers, non-emotion based words, and nonsense syllables. The participants were undergraduate students enrolled at South Dakota State University.The participants viewed these colored stimuli and recalled as many as possible.Using a between subjects design, each group of participants was assigned a specific color.When interpreted with an ANOVA and post-hoc t-tests, neither gender nor color significantly altered recall of stimuli.

The Journal Of Undergraduate Research: Volume 03

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

This is the complete issue of the South Dakota State University Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 3.