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Women's Participation In Disaster Relief And Recovery, Ayse Yonder, Sengul Akcar, Prema Gopalan Jan 2005

Women's Participation In Disaster Relief And Recovery, Ayse Yonder, Sengul Akcar, Prema Gopalan

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Too little attention has been given to the gender-differentiated effects of natural disasters, that is, women’s losses relative to men’s, how women’s work time and conditions change (both in terms of care-giving and income-generating work), or how disaster-related aid and entitlement programs include or marginalize affected women. The detailed case studies from three earthquake-stricken areas in India and Turkey that are contained in this issue of SEEDS help fill this information gap. They provide examples of how low-income women who have lost everything can form groups and become active participants in the relief and recovery process. Readers learn how women …

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Reciprocal Effects Of Health And Economic Well-Being Among Older Adults In Taiwan And Beijing, Kristine R. Baker, Mary Beth Ofstedal, Zachary Zimmer, Zhe Tang, Yi-Li Chuang Jan 2005

Reciprocal Effects Of Health And Economic Well-Being Among Older Adults In Taiwan And Beijing, Kristine R. Baker, Mary Beth Ofstedal, Zachary Zimmer, Zhe Tang, Yi-Li Chuang

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The objectives of this Population Council study are threefold: 1) to examine whether socioeconomic status disparities in health are found in non-Western settings; 2) to assess whether socioeconomic status gradients in health endure into older ages; and 3) to evaluate the direction of causality between health and socioeconomic status. Findings provide evidence for reciprocal effects of economic well-being and health among older adults in both Taiwan and Beijing. Those with higher levels of economic well-being have lower levels of functional limitation over time, and those with higher levels of functional limitation have lower levels of economic well-being over time. Consistent …

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Techmatters: Further Adventures In The Googleverse: Exploring The Google Labs, Krista Graham Jan 2005

Techmatters: Further Adventures In The Googleverse: Exploring The Google Labs, Krista Graham

LOEX Quarterly

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Sir Walter Raleigh Revived: The Supreme Court Re-Vamps Two Decades Of Confrontation Clause Precedent In Crawford V. Washington (Or, What You Learned In Law School About Confrontation Is Passé, Christine Hutton Jan 2005

Sir Walter Raleigh Revived: The Supreme Court Re-Vamps Two Decades Of Confrontation Clause Precedent In Crawford V. Washington (Or, What You Learned In Law School About Confrontation Is Passé, Christine Hutton

Faculty Publications

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Protection Orders: A Procedural Pacifier Or A Vigorously Enforced Protection Tool - A Discussion Of The Tenth Circuit's Decision In Gonzales V. Castle Rock, Michael Mattis Jan 2005

Protection Orders: A Procedural Pacifier Or A Vigorously Enforced Protection Tool - A Discussion Of The Tenth Circuit's Decision In Gonzales V. Castle Rock, Michael Mattis

Denver Law Review

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Powers V. Harris: How The Tenth Circuit Buried Economic Liberties, Jim Thompson Jan 2005

Powers V. Harris: How The Tenth Circuit Buried Economic Liberties, Jim Thompson

Denver Law Review

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Nicholson V. Williams Revisited: When Good People Do Bad Things, Evan Stark Jan 2005

Nicholson V. Williams Revisited: When Good People Do Bad Things, Evan Stark

Denver Law Review

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Sneak Preview Into How The Court Took Away A State's Right To Execute Sixteen And Seventeen Year Old Juveniles: The Threat Of Execution Will No Longer Save An Innocent Victim's Life, Mitchel Brim Jan 2005

Sneak Preview Into How The Court Took Away A State's Right To Execute Sixteen And Seventeen Year Old Juveniles: The Threat Of Execution Will No Longer Save An Innocent Victim's Life, Mitchel Brim

Denver Law Review

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Vol. 83, No. 1: Full Issue, Denver University Law Review Jan 2005

Vol. 83, No. 1: Full Issue, Denver University Law Review

Denver Law Review

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Female Circumcision In Africa: Procedures, Rationales, Solutions, And The Road To Recovery, Shayla Mcgee Jan 2005

Female Circumcision In Africa: Procedures, Rationales, Solutions, And The Road To Recovery, Shayla Mcgee

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Building Healthy Cities: Legal Frameworks And Considerations, Wendy Collins Perdue Jan 2005

Building Healthy Cities: Legal Frameworks And Considerations, Wendy Collins Perdue

Law Faculty Publications

This chapter will explore the range of laws and government policies that have shaped the physical structure of U.S. cities and thereby impacted the health of those cities' residents. This analysis will highlight the many, apparently "private" decisions that have been impacted by government policies. Though some of the laws, policies, prohibitions, and incentives have been formulated explicitly to take into account health considerations, others have unintended effects - both good and bad - on the health of urban populations.

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Do Fiduciary Duties Contained In Federal Tax Laws Effectively Promote National Health Care Policies And Practices ?, Nina J. Crimm Jan 2005

Do Fiduciary Duties Contained In Federal Tax Laws Effectively Promote National Health Care Policies And Practices ?, Nina J. Crimm

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Why So Glum ? Toward A Fair Balance Of Competitive Interests In Direct-To-Consumer Advertising And The Well-Being Of The Mentally Ill Consumers It Targets, Erin Lenhardt Jan 2005

Why So Glum ? Toward A Fair Balance Of Competitive Interests In Direct-To-Consumer Advertising And The Well-Being Of The Mentally Ill Consumers It Targets, Erin Lenhardt

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Ethical Concerns Related To Treating Gender Nonconformity In Childhood And Adolescence: Lessons From The Familyl Court Of Australia, Hazel Beh, Milton Diamond Jan 2005

Ethical Concerns Related To Treating Gender Nonconformity In Childhood And Adolescence: Lessons From The Familyl Court Of Australia, Hazel Beh, Milton Diamond

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Dealing With Dying: How Insurers Can Help Patients Seeking Last-Chance Therapies (Even When The Answer Is "No"), Kathy L. Cerminara Jan 2005

Dealing With Dying: How Insurers Can Help Patients Seeking Last-Chance Therapies (Even When The Answer Is "No"), Kathy L. Cerminara

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Refusal To Undergo A Cesarean Section: A Woman's Right Or A Criminal Act ?, Monica K. Miller Jan 2005

Refusal To Undergo A Cesarean Section: A Woman's Right Or A Criminal Act ?, Monica K. Miller

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Lessons To Be Learned From The 407 Process, Lainie Friedman Ross Jan 2005

Lessons To Be Learned From The 407 Process, Lainie Friedman Ross

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Relative Efficacy Of School-Home Notes And Classroom Based Contingencies In Low-Income Elementary School Students With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Jennette Lea Palcic Jan 2005

Relative Efficacy Of School-Home Notes And Classroom Based Contingencies In Low-Income Elementary School Students With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Jennette Lea Palcic

LSU Master's Theses

A great deal of evidence suggests that ADHD negatively impacts children’s academic performance and on-task behavior. School-home notes have proven to be an effective and acceptable method of classroom behavior management. A school-home note is a daily report card in which a teacher rates a student on any number of target behaviors. The note is then sent home so that the child may receive consequences contingent on that day's behavior. Although successful at decreasing off-task behavior in the classroom, treatment integrity is not always maintained at acceptable levels. Additionally, ADHD children have been shown to be more responsive to immediate …

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The Art Of Living - The Marketing Of Identity Through Nationality And Spirituality, Shirisha Shankar Jan 2005

The Art Of Living - The Marketing Of Identity Through Nationality And Spirituality, Shirisha Shankar

LSU Master's Theses

Spirituality has been a term that has always been associated with the East and more specifically with India. Spirituality has been revamped and repackaged in glossy packages by various spiritual groups and organizations in India. One among these organizations is the Art of Living, a non-governmental spiritual organization that has risen in popularity since 1996. This thesis concentrates on the Art of Living as an organization and of the dissemination of the new spirituality through this institution. This research study pertains to the identity of self and of the sense of nationhood through the discourse and the practice of certain …

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Museum-Public Relationships: Exploring The Relationship Management Theory Of Public Relations, Mary Presley Schoen Jan 2005

Museum-Public Relationships: Exploring The Relationship Management Theory Of Public Relations, Mary Presley Schoen

LSU Master's Theses

This study employs the organization-public relationship (OPR) scale to measure member perceptions of an art museum affiliated with a Southern university. The scale is a 15-item, multi-dimension tool developed by Bruning and Ledingham to measure a public’s relationship with an organization (Ledingham, 2001). The three dimensions are personal relationship, community relationship, and professional relationship. The study found that member perceptions of the museum-public relationship differentiated members who voted to continue their membership from those who voted to discontinue their membership with the museum. Further, this study supports the relationship management theory of public relations as a viable framework for practicing …

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An Examination Of Psychotropic Medication Prescription Practices Among Individuals With Mental Retardation, Ashvind Nand Singh Jan 2005

An Examination Of Psychotropic Medication Prescription Practices Among Individuals With Mental Retardation, Ashvind Nand Singh

LSU Master's Theses

While there is an extensive literature on the use of psychotropic medications among individuals with mental retardation, little of it has focused on the reasons for these prescriptions. Researchers have shown that the prevalence of psychotropic medication use among individuals with mental retardation is relatively high when compared to people with other disabilities and that the reasons for these drug prescriptions may not be based on rational pharmacotherapy. Data is needed on the prescribing physician’s adherence to consensus guidelines or algorithms developed to enhance rational psychopharmacotherapy. In order to do this, the rationales being used by physicians when they decide …

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The Intention/Foresight Distinction In The Doctrine Of Double Effect: From Theoretical Impasses And Double-Think To Practical Applications In Bioethics, Mitchell R. Thomas, Iii Jan 2005

The Intention/Foresight Distinction In The Doctrine Of Double Effect: From Theoretical Impasses And Double-Think To Practical Applications In Bioethics, Mitchell R. Thomas, Iii

LSU Master's Theses

The purpose of this paper is to address the doubts that surround the intention/foresight distinction of the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE). The claim is made by some that this distinction is merely a semantic one or if real, it is morally irrelevant. It will be argued that this is the result of doubts that surround the contributions of theory in applied ethics and the double think that sometimes results from the misuse of the DDE. I will argue that the intention/foresight distinction in the DDE is a real one and can be made on the level of practice, without …

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Strategies And Beliefs About Conflict Resolution: Comparing Children With Language-Learning Disorders To Children With Typical Language Development, Karmen Louise Porter Jan 2005

Strategies And Beliefs About Conflict Resolution: Comparing Children With Language-Learning Disorders To Children With Typical Language Development, Karmen Louise Porter

LSU Master's Theses

The purpose of the current study was to compare the conflict resolution skills and beliefs of children with Language and Learning Disorders (LLD) to those with typically developing language (TDL). All of the participants were drawn from a rural middle school in southeastern Louisiana. The independent variable was linguistic ability and it included two groups of children, thirteen with LLD and a comparison group of eight controls with TDL. The children’s conflict resolution skills and beliefs were collected by giving the children a hypothetical scenario of conflict and then asking them about resolution through an interview format. Conflict resolution measures …

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Christians Against Globalization In The Philippines, Kathy Nadeau Jan 2005

Christians Against Globalization In The Philippines, Kathy Nadeau

Anthropology Faculty Publications

This paper focuses on the Basic Christian Communities in the Philippines that work to counter human and environmental rights violations resulting from macro-economic development processes. While not every activist-led and mass-based people's movement includes critical environmental issues on their agendas for social change, this paper directs its attention to the progressive Basic Christian Community movement that incorporates an environmentally concerned and team-oriented approach to problem solving at the local level. This movement is part of an international bottom-up effort to counteract some of the negative effects of global capitalism (e.g., the fragmentation of close-knit communities that were once based on …

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Quiet Revolutions: Neighborhood Urban Forestry Programs, Ann Mccoy Allen Jan 2005

Quiet Revolutions: Neighborhood Urban Forestry Programs, Ann Mccoy Allen

LSU Master's Theses

This study seeks to identify the key components that would enable neighborhoods to become responsible for the trees under which they dwell-their urban forest. Guidelines will be established for neighborhoods to use to compose a plan that allows them to create and sustain the tree population specific to their needs and desires. To develop these guidelines, this study is divided into two parts. The first section examines urban forestry. This review revealed several issues pertinent to urban forestry: (1) The urban forest is crucial to the health and beauty of the city and is directly linked to the well-being of …

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Persona, Joanna Norcross Coke Jan 2005

Persona, Joanna Norcross Coke

LSU Master's Theses

The narrative oil paintings in this show illustrate one or two female characters set in domestic interior spaces. The scenes bring with them allusions to suggest that something unusual has just happened or is about to happen by heightening the psychological emotional moments. The subject matter is intimate and painted on small supports to reinforce these feelings. The images go beyond the observed visual aesthetic or representation by shifting the picture plane and using dramatic color palettes and lighting to create deeper interior spaces, adding to the tension.

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Fashion Involvement Of Affluent Female Consumers, Robin Danielle Mcfatter Jan 2005

Fashion Involvement Of Affluent Female Consumers, Robin Danielle Mcfatter

LSU Master's Theses

Fashion involvement is a consumer’s perceived importance of fashion clothing (O’Cass, 2001). It is important to investigate fashion involvement to understand consumer purchase behavior and to develop improved marketing strategies. Although researchers agree that consumers consider apparel purchases to be important, there has been little research done regarding fashion involvement (O’Cass, 2000) of affluent female consumers. The purpose of this study was to measure the fashion involvement of selected affluent female consumers from eight metropolitan areas in the United States and to identify relationships between fashion involvement and other selected variables. After controlling for socioeconomic demographic characteristics, the following variables …

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Usability Of Home Cholesterol Test Kits And Their Impact On Patients' Decision, Deepti Surabattula Jan 2005

Usability Of Home Cholesterol Test Kits And Their Impact On Patients' Decision, Deepti Surabattula

LSU Master's Theses

Release of home health testing kits into the market has enabled people to take care of their own health. Misinterpretation of results and delays in treatments are the major concerns of the doctors. In the present study, two cholesterol test kits, AccuchekÒ Instant plusÒ and Home Access® Instant Cholesterol Test, were compared on the basis of user performance, accuracy, and the patient’s future medical decisions based on the test results. The study was conducted with 30 participants, 15 men and 15 women. Participants tested their overall cholesterol level with both kits. In addition, a clinical cholesterol evaluation, the medical gold …

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Petite Women: Fit And Body Shape Analysis, Lisa Barona Mcroberts Jan 2005

Petite Women: Fit And Body Shape Analysis, Lisa Barona Mcroberts

LSU Master's Theses

Only small quantities of apparel are available to the domestic petite sector, and they do not fit well due to lack of attention to proportion. In addition, other factors contributing to improper fit are a sizing system based on outdated anthropometric data gathered in the 1930s to create the voluntary product standard PS 42-70, and a rising obesity problem, resulting in an array of figure type variations ranging from apple-shaped to pear-shaped women, as opposed to the industry focused hourglass shape. The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate fit and design with figure type variations for petite women, …

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Milton's "Covering Cherub": The Influence Of Stanley Fish's Surprised By Sin On Twentieth-Century Milton Criticism, Thomas Thoits Jan 2005

Milton's "Covering Cherub": The Influence Of Stanley Fish's Surprised By Sin On Twentieth-Century Milton Criticism, Thomas Thoits

LSU Master's Theses

During a time when ideological debates between Milton critics remained largely unresolved, Stanley Fish reconciled both sides of the “Milton Controversy” with Surprised by Sin, positing a theoretically sophisticated method that centers the poem’s meaning in the reader’s experience. Christian and non-Christian critics became enfranchised in critical debate since their reactions, according to Fish, were valid and intended by Milton. Borrowing his intentionalist approach from A.J.A. Waldock, Fish asserts his version of both author and text while implicitly employing a radically subjective hermeneutics. Fish focuses on the multiple and contradictory linguistic meanings within Paradise Lost, locating the source of these …

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