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Orange & White - Spring 2006, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College
Orange & White - Spring 2006, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College
UTB/TSC Archives - Orange & White Magazine
No abstract provided.
Utpa Commencement – Spring 2006, University Of Texas-Pan American
Utpa Commencement – Spring 2006, University Of Texas-Pan American
Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs
No abstract provided.
Ross' Rave: What Would Oprah Do?, Ross Labaugh
The Experiences Of Childbirth: Personal Stories Of Mam Women From Comitancillo, Guatemala, Kristina Cottrell
The Experiences Of Childbirth: Personal Stories Of Mam Women From Comitancillo, Guatemala, Kristina Cottrell
Senior Honors Theses
This phenomenological research study examines the attitudes and actions that surround the experience of childbearing among women in a Maya-Marn community of highland Guatemala. This area typifies the indigenous underprivileged population of Central America that has attracted international attention for poor maternal-child health outcomes and resistance to attempts at bio-medical interventions in obstetrics. Interviews were conducted among women with obstetrical experience wherein they described their traditional practices and attitudes towards modern medical care during childbirth. It was found that participants preferred traditional methods of care, but were willing to integrate bio-medical care into their realm of experience in the event …
The Effect Of Summer Enrollment In The Boys And Girls Club On Adolescent Peer Attachment, Erik Donavan Henkel
The Effect Of Summer Enrollment In The Boys And Girls Club On Adolescent Peer Attachment, Erik Donavan Henkel
Senior Honors Theses
The formation of friendships is an important developmental step for adolescents. Peer attachment is an attachment relationship that adolescents develop with their closest friends. Research studying peer attachment has divided it into three major categories: trust, communication, and alienation, the later of which is an inverse measure of peer attachment. Youth organizations like the Boys and Girls Club of America (BGCA) offers places outside of school where adolescents can socialize with their peers. This study measured whether the BGCA had a significant impact on increasing peer attachment, trust, and communication while reducing alienation. Adolescents were tested at a local BGCA …
Symbolic Interaction Theory And Architecture, Ronald W. Smith, Valerie Bugni
Symbolic Interaction Theory And Architecture, Ronald W. Smith, Valerie Bugni
Sociology Faculty Research
Architectural sociology is receiving renewed attention but still remains a neglected area of investigation. As a major theoretical perspective within sociology, symbolic interaction helps us understand how the designed physical environment and the self are intertwined, with one potentially influencing and finding expression in the other; how architecture contains and communicates our shared symbols; and how we assign agency to some of our designed physical environment, which then invites in a different kind of self-reflection. This article discusses numerous instances of symbolic interaction theory–architecture connections, with applied examples showing how symbolic interactionists and architects can collaborate on projects to the …
Dr. Jerome Hall-A North Star In My Life, Lowell E. Baier
Dr. Jerome Hall-A North Star In My Life, Lowell E. Baier
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Novel Organization Form As A Growth Driver, Sourav Mukherji, J Ramachandran
Novel Organization Form As A Growth Driver, Sourav Mukherji, J Ramachandran
Working Papers
Scholars have conceptualized the competitive landscape confronting modem organizations as business ecosystems. An ecosystem is well suited to describe the complex interdependencies that exist among specialist organizations operating in a dynamic environment. Is a business ecosystem similar to a network form of organization? We do not think so. Based on our research on the relational network that exists between Indian software service organizations and their clients, we distill two features that distinguish a business ecosystem from traditional networks. These are (1) the ability of the relationship to simultaneously accommodate collaboration - a definitive feature of networks (Powell, 1990) with competition, …
Learning Sustainable Design Through Service, Karim Al-Khafaji, Margaret Catherine Morse
Learning Sustainable Design Through Service, Karim Al-Khafaji, Margaret Catherine Morse
Higher Education
Environmental sustainability and sustainable development principles arc vital topics that engineering education has largely failed to address. Service-learning, which integrates social service into an academic setting, is an emerging tool that can be leveraged to teach sustainable design to future engineers. We present a model of using service-learning to teach sustainable design based on the experiences of the Stanford chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World. The model involves the identification of projects and partner organizations, a student led, project-based design course, and internships coordinated with partner organizations. The model has been very successful, although limitations and challenges exist. These …
Public Scholarship: Making Sense Of An Emerging Synthesis, Judith A. Ramaley
Public Scholarship: Making Sense Of An Emerging Synthesis, Judith A. Ramaley
Higher Education
This concluding chapter, written by a national leader in higher education, reflects on public scholarship from a perspective beyond Penn State and argues that public scholarship promises to strengthen “that special form of public decision making that we call democracy.”
Beyond The First Decade: A Forward-Looking History Of Latcrit Theory, Community And Praxis, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Angela Harris, Francisco Valdés
Beyond The First Decade: A Forward-Looking History Of Latcrit Theory, Community And Praxis, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Angela Harris, Francisco Valdés
UF Law Faculty Publications
Part I of this Afterword sketches an overview of the jurisprudential and intellectual precursors that have influenced the emergence and development of LatCrit theory during this past decade. Part II turns squarely to the origins and the efforts of this enterprise, as we have endeavored to articulate the LatCrit subject position in socially relevant ways. Part III explains the special emphasis on internationalism manifest both in our symposia and more broadly in our portfolio of projects. Part IV then concludes with an outline of some key points that might help to inform our second-decade agenda. In presenting our account of …
2006 Abstract Book, Undergraduate Research Forum
2006 Abstract Book, Undergraduate Research Forum
Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Forum Abstract Books
No abstract provided.
Arts And Sciences Newsletter, Volume 9, Issue 2, College Of Arts & Sciences
Arts And Sciences Newsletter, Volume 9, Issue 2, College Of Arts & Sciences
Arts and Sciences Newsletters
No abstract provided.
High School Dropout Determinants: The Effect Of Socioeconomic Status And Learning Disabilities, Adrienne Ingrum '06
High School Dropout Determinants: The Effect Of Socioeconomic Status And Learning Disabilities, Adrienne Ingrum '06
Honors Projects
Considering the growing importance of higher education due to increased global competition, one might wonder why some students still opt to drop out of high school. Previous literature has focused on a number of determinants of high school dropouts, such as socioeconomic status and learning disabilities. However, this literature has not systematically explored the interaction between these two variables. Therefore, my research extends past literature by focusing on this interaction. A logit model is used to predict the dichotomous variable, high school dropouts, and to run simulations with varying values of the independent variables. The results show that low socioeconomic …
"No More Than A Heap Of Letters": The Cognitive Mapping Of Hypertext Literature, Molly M. Mclay '06
"No More Than A Heap Of Letters": The Cognitive Mapping Of Hypertext Literature, Molly M. Mclay '06
The Delta
If you have ever wanted to cut up a narrative and patch it back together in a new order; if you have ever thought about the implications of singular linearity on literature and the thought process; or if you have ever wondered if the mind might favor a more associative, linkage based form of reading literature, then you may know of hypertext. Through a discussion of criticism ranging from post-structuralism to constructivism, I will argue that hypertext literature, specifically Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, maps narratives like those the mind creates when forming and …
Something Fishy Is Going On: The Misapplication Of Interpretive Communities In Literary Theory, Erie Martha Roberts '06
Something Fishy Is Going On: The Misapplication Of Interpretive Communities In Literary Theory, Erie Martha Roberts '06
The Delta
When the New Critical theoretical paradigm began to dissolve in the 1980s, the theories that challenged it were, in many ways, completely antithetical to the New Critic paradigm. These new theories legitimized that which the New Critic rejected as invalid. Marxists inserted ideology into theory; Feminists added women. Some of the more acute challenges came from reader-response critics, who supplanted the text for the reader. It is the reader, they argue, who holds interpretive power, not the text. However, reader-response critics have always been susceptible to the charge of relativism. How can one avoid complete subjectivity? How can one stabilize …
Taking The Initiative: Political Parties, Primary Elections, And The Constitutional Guarantee Of Republican Governance, Gavin M. Rose
Taking The Initiative: Political Parties, Primary Elections, And The Constitutional Guarantee Of Republican Governance, Gavin M. Rose
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Divisionews (Spring 2006, Issue 22), American Society Of Criminology Division On Women And Crime
Divisionews (Spring 2006, Issue 22), American Society Of Criminology Division On Women And Crime
Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence
No abstract provided.
Gender Differences In The Relative Age Effect Among Us Olympic Development Program Youth Soccer Players, John Vincent, Francis D. Glamser
Gender Differences In The Relative Age Effect Among Us Olympic Development Program Youth Soccer Players, John Vincent, Francis D. Glamser
Faculty Publications
A large body of research has shown that a disproportionate number of elite youth male soccer players competing in age-segmented competition are born early in the selection year. The advantage of being born early in a cohort has been termed the "relative age effect''. Although there has been an exponential growth in women's soccer, few studies have examined the relative age effect in female youth soccer. This study compared the relative age effect of 1344 female and male youth soccer players considered by the US Olympic Development Program (ODP), in 2001, to be the most talented soccer players born in …
Leveraging Social Capital As Public Policy Resource In Pennsylvania School Districts, Suzanne K. Moore
Leveraging Social Capital As Public Policy Resource In Pennsylvania School Districts, Suzanne K. Moore
Student Scholarship
This study bridges literature and methods in several fields including public finance, social science and public administration. Survey and archival data were utilized to examine social capital of school board members in 170 Pennsylvania school districts. Specifically this study examined the impact of board member internal and external social capital on two organizational outcomes--community support for school spending and student performance. In addition to measuring external social capital leveraged in the board members' official capacity, an additional dimension was measured to capture the transferability of social capital through board member relationships in the community outside of their role as public …
Sociology Discipline Assessment Report 2005/2006, Sociology Discipline
Sociology Discipline Assessment Report 2005/2006, Sociology Discipline
Assessment of Student Learning Reports
No abstract provided.
Sac Outreach Bulletin 2006, The South Asia Center
Sac Outreach Bulletin 2006, The South Asia Center
Newsletters from the South Asia Center
New faces at SU.
Periodicals Price Survey 2006: Journals In The Time Of Google, Lee Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born
Periodicals Price Survey 2006: Journals In The Time Of Google, Lee Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born
Scholarly Papers and Articles
No abstract provided.
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Carol C. Harter, Cate Weeks, Mamie Peers, Regina Vaccari
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Carol C. Harter, Cate Weeks, Mamie Peers, Regina Vaccari
Inside UNLV
No abstract provided.
Trust In Wildland Fire And Fuel Management Decisions, William T. Borrie, Adam Liljeblad
Trust In Wildland Fire And Fuel Management Decisions, William T. Borrie, Adam Liljeblad
Society and Conservation Faculty Publications
Public land managers are stewards of public lands and of the relationship between the public and these lands. Maintaining one aspect of this relationship, trust in the agency, can be challenging. Lack of trust can influence public response to management decisions, including about wildland fire use. By considering the factors that influence trust, managers can be more effective in accomplishing fire stewardship objectives.
Native America History, Comparative Genocide And The Holocaust: Historiography, Debate And Critical Analysis, Brenden W. Rensink
Native America History, Comparative Genocide And The Holocaust: Historiography, Debate And Critical Analysis, Brenden W. Rensink
Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This study explores the complex issues surrounding comparative genocide studies and how Native American history relates to this field. Historical contexts for Native American historiography, particularly the scholarship of Vine Deloria, Jr., are examined. In addition, the manifestation of some problematic trends in the field is detailed through the mordant debate between scholars of native America and the Jewish Holocaust. Arguments over Holocaust uniqueness and how the depopulation of Native America should be classified typifies how certain aspects of comparative genocide studies have a propensity for subjectively motivated and biased methodology. Finally, a case study using the historiography of the …
Sum Of Your Parts: Are There Adequate Remedies For Victims Of Fraudulent Tissue And Organ Acquisition?, Azza Jayaprakash
Sum Of Your Parts: Are There Adequate Remedies For Victims Of Fraudulent Tissue And Organ Acquisition?, Azza Jayaprakash
DePaul Journal of Health Care Law
No abstract provided.
Clarifying The Role Of Self-Efficacy And Metacognition As Indicators Of Learning: Construct Development And Test, Trevor T. Moores, Jerry Cha-Jan Chang, Deborah K. Smith
Clarifying The Role Of Self-Efficacy And Metacognition As Indicators Of Learning: Construct Development And Test, Trevor T. Moores, Jerry Cha-Jan Chang, Deborah K. Smith
Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology Faculty Research
We propose extending our understanding of self-efficacy by comparing self-efficacy with a related construct called metacognition. Metacognition involves the monitoring and control of one's thought processes and is often related, as is self-efficacy, to performance on a task. We develop an instrument that attempts to measure both self-efficacy and metacognition with respect to one's performance on a test covering declarative and procedural knowledge (knowing that, and knowing how) of DFDs and ERDs. With data collected from a sample of 124 students, we use partial least squares (PLS) to show that self-efficacy and metacognition are distinct yet related constructs. While self-efficacy …
Producing Norms: Same-Sex Marriage, Refiguring Kinship And The Cultural Groundswell Of Queer Coupledom, Rob Cover
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Poststructuralist feminism, postmodern inquiry, queer theory and various radical and liberal-humanist forms of lesbian/gay rights have worked to undo the claim to the naturalness of masculine-feminine and male-female complementarity in sex and relationships. That is, the rhetorical grounding of the very notion of relationship ‘coupledom’ has been put in question over the past half-century and opened the possibility of a radical reorganisation of modern kinship. The destabilising impact on much contemporary western legislation concerning family, children, IVF access, adoption, immigration rights and social security centers on whether or not the subject of that legislation is ‘single’ or ‘coupled’. Such legislation …
The Phenomenology Of Nonidentity And Theatrical Presence In M. Butterfly, William S. Haney Ii
The Phenomenology Of Nonidentity And Theatrical Presence In M. Butterfly, William S. Haney Ii
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
David Henry Hwang’s postmodernist play M. Butterfly, abounds with alienation devices for deconstructing the notion of a unified subject. This essay, however, seeks to challenge the assumed poststructuralist vantage-point that the self and the metaphysics of presence are illusory by exploring what holds the play's identities together as dynamic matrices that function coherently within their discursive contexts. How tenable is the constructivist claim that our shifting subject positions designated by power relations are self-sustaining, that the self does not in fact extend beyond the material tokens of narrative conventions and discursive fields? Even if performers and audience can shift …